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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

1987 · 84 min

A haunting, intimate immersion into war through soldiers' own words and raw footage, leaving a deep emotional ache.

Tagline
Addressed to the heart of America.
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.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • death
  • grief
  • isolation
  • survival
Places
  • military
  • wilderness
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror6
Humour2
Realism10
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
documentary, war
Directed by
Bill Couturié
Written by
Richard Dewhurst
Starring
Ellen Burstyn, Tom Berenger, J. Kenneth Campbell, Richard Chaves, Josh Cruze, Willem Dafoe, Robert De Niro, Brian Dennehy
Runtime
84 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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