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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam: Directed by Bill Couturié. With Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, J. Kenneth Campbell, Richard Chaves. Feature-length documentary film featuring real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home.
English. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is a 1987 American documentary film inspired by the anthology of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié. The film's narration consists of real letters written by American soldiers, which are read by actors, including Robert De Niro and Martin Sheen. The footage includes film from TV news, the ...
The music on the soundtrack is all from the period, and then, at the end of the movie, there is a heartbreaking flash-forward to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., 15 years later, and we hear Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" as Ellen Burstyn reads from a letter that the mother of a dead veteran left at the foot of the wall of names: Dear Bill, Today is Feb. 13, 1984.
This documentary takes a deeper look into the letters that were sent from battle from 1954 to 1975. Various actors read the letters, creating a moving narrative, accompanied by still photographs ...
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The book "Dear America, Letters Home From America", edited by Bernard L Edelman, was compiled for The New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission. Broadcast over HBO April 3, 1988. Released in United States Fall September 16, 1988. Released in United States April 1987 (Shown at USA Film Festival April 1987.)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is a 1987 American documentary film inspired by the anthology of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié in 1987. Using real letters written by American soldiers and archive footage, the film creates a highly personal experience of the Vietnam War.
Aside from that great and powerful Wall, I believe that this humble HBO documentary, *Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam* is perhaps the most artful and cogent assessment of the War. 86 minutes in length, it boasts entirely historical footage from both NBC News archives and soldiers' own video, the urgent and timeless rock music of the period, and, of course, the soldiers' letters to their loved ones back in The World.
