Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)

7.1/10 84 min Documentary War

Overview

Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.

Cast

Ellen Burstyn

Mrs. Stocks (voice)

Tom Berenger

(voice)

J. Kenneth Campbell

(voice)

Richard Chaves

(voice)

Josh Cruze

(voice)

Willem Dafoe

Elephant Grass (voice)

Robert De Niro

Great Sewer (voice)

Brian Dennehy

(voice)

Kevin Dillon

Jack (voice)

Matt Dillon

Mike (voice)

Robert Downey Jr.

(voice)

Michael J. Fox

Raymond Griffiths (voice)

Mark Harmon

(voice)

John Heard

Johnny Boy (voice)

Judd Nelson

(voice)

Martin Sheen

Alan (voice)

Eric Roberts

(voice)

Sean Penn

(voice)

Kathleen Turner

Lynda Van Devanter (voice)

Robin Williams

(voice)

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