Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

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A documentary featuring letters written by U.S. 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.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam:

Ellen Burstyn
Tom Berenger
J. Kenneth Campbell
Richard Chaves
Josh Cruze
Willem Dafoe

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A documentary featuring letters written by U.S. 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.

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eFilmCritic.com - 10/10 by Scott WeinbergWhen it comes to war, listen to the soldiers.
Washington Post - 10/10 by Hal HinsonThe first film about Vietnam to come to us free of bias, free of rhetoric.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 9/10 by Emanuel LevyThe structure of this Vietnam War docu is not particularly interesting, but the contents are.
Spirituality and Practice - 8/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatAdds immeasurably to the growing stockpile of testaments about this tragic war.
New York Times - 8/10 by Vincent CanbyMr. Couturie, the director, and his associates have done a first-rate job.
User Review - 10/10 by Jerrad NSaw this in my history class. Intense raw war footage plays while the solemn voices of numerous celebrities recite actual letters from soldiers. Definitely one of the best Vietnam documentaries. Period.
User Review - 10/10 by Jackie SIn talking to a bunch of Vietnam Vets over the years (neighbors, teachers, relatives, etc.), I found that every "VIETNAM EXPERIENCE" is radically different from one another--there is no BEST movie because it seems like every soldier has such a varied experience . . . DEAR AMERICA, LETTERS HOME FROM VIETNAM comes to mind as the best "VIETNAM EXPERIENCE MOVIE"
User Review - 10/10 by Elliott FIncredibly moving...watched it in my IB Global (Global history) class, and was just on the brink of tears throughout, but really lost it during the "Stille Nacht" scene.
User Review - 10/10 by Omar LExcellent documentary on the Vietnam War. Letters written home from Vets during different stages of the war are read by many prominent actors to include Tom Berenger, Robert Deniro, Harvey Keitel, Robbin Willams, Matt & Kevin Dillon, and Robert Downey Jr to name a few. Real footage is shown as a backdrop to the letters along with some interviews. The footage is raw of both life inside and outside the wire with many combat clips being shown. I discovered that this documentary succeeded in doing something to me that no other film has been able to do. It tapped into a universal fear we have of death. This is expressed as an ongoing theme in many of the letters by these young sailors, nurses, marines, and soldiers. Many of whom didnâ??t make it back. Very touching. 10/10 from me. Mrs. Stocks: [In a letter to her KIA son, left at the Vietnam Memorial] Dear Bill, I came to this black wall again, to see and touch your name. William R. Stocks. And as I do, I wonder if anyone ever stops to realize that next to your name, on this black wall, is your mother's heart. A heart broken fifteen years ago today, when you lost your life in Vietnam. And as I look at your name, I think of how many, many times I used to wonder how scared and homesick you must have been, in that strange country called Vietnam. And if and how it might have changed you, for you were the most happy-go-lucky kid in the world, hardly ever sad or unhappy. And until the day I die, I will see you as you laughed at me, even when I was very mad at you. And the next thing I knew, we were laughing together. But on this past New Year's Day, I talked by phone to a friend of yours from Michigan, who spent your last Christmas and the last four months of your life with you. Jim told me how you died, for he was there and saw the helicopter crash. He told me how your jobs were like sitting ducks; they would send you men out to draw the enemy into the open, and then, they would send in the big guns and planes to take over. He told me how after a while over there, instead of a yellow streak, the men got a mean streak down their backs. Each day the streak got bigger, and the men became meaner. Everyone but you, Bill. He said how you stayed the same happy-go-lucky guy that you were when you arrived in Vietnam. And he said how you, of all people, should never have been the one to die. How lucky you were to have him for a friend. And how lucky he was to have had you. They tell me the letters I write to you and leave here at this memorial are waking others up to the fact that there is still much pain left from the Vietnam War. But this I know; I would rather to have had you for twenty-one years and all the pain that goes with losing you, than never to have had you at all. -Mom
User Review - 10/10 by Zack BOne of the best documentaries I've ever seen. I don't know if I've ever been so emotionally involved in a documentary. The footage that was used was incredible. The letters were read eloquently and beautifully by all the actors. It was great to hear the voices of Robert De Niro, Willem Dafoe, Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr., Ellen Burstyn and many others. They each really gave a face to those letters. The soundtrack really hooked me in as well. There were many great songs from that time. Basically this documentary takes you back into that time. It shows you the price all those men and women had to pay. It's absolutely incredible. Don't be surprised if you're in tears at the end of this one.

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