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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

1987-1h 24min

7.1 / 10 27

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.

Documentary War

Directed by Bill Couturié

Writers Richard Dewhurst

Stars Ellen Burstyn Tom Berenger J. Kenneth Campbell

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Cast

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Ellen Burstyn

Mrs. Stocks (voice)

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Tom Berenger

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J. Kenneth Campbell

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Richard Chaves

(voice)

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Josh Cruze

(voice)

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Willem Dafoe

Elephant Grass (voice)

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Robert De Niro

Great Sewer (voice)

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Brian Dennehy

(voice)

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Kevin Dillon

Jack (voice)

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Matt Dillon

Mike (voice)

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Robert Downey Jr.

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Michael J. Fox

Raymond Griffiths (voice)