Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
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| Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | |
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| Directed by | Bill Couturié |
| Produced by | Bill Couturié Thomas Bird Bernard Edelman |
| Written by | Bill Couturié Richard Dewhurst |
| Starring | Tom Berenger Ellen Burstyn Sean Penn Martin Sheen Robin Williams |
| Music by | Todd Boekelheide |
| Cinematography | Michael Chin |
| Editing by | Stephen Stept Gary Weimberg |
| Distributed by | Corsair Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  October 1987 September 9, 1988 November 17 November 30 January 5 |
| Running time | 87 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is an Emmy award winning 1987 documentary directed by Bill Couturié. Using real letters written by US soldiers and archive footage, the film creates a highly personal experience of the Vietnam War.
Roger Ebert commented, "There have been many great movies about Vietnam. This is the one that completes the story."
