Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)

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.

Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Tom Berenger, J. Kenneth Campbell, Richard Chaves

Categories: Documentary, War