
Platoon(1986)
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.


“Addressed to the heart of America.”
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.

Ellen Burstyn
Mrs. Stocks (voice)

Tom Berenger
(voice)

J. Kenneth Campbell
(voice)

Richard Chaves
(voice)

Josh Cruze
(voice)

Willem Dafoe
Elephant Grass (voice)

Robert De Niro
Great Sewer (voice)

Brian Dennehy
(voice)

Kevin Dillon
Jack (voice)

Matt Dillon
Mike (voice)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is a documentary, war film released in 1987 exploring themes of vietnam war, letter, u.s. soldier, correspondences, american soldiers, epistolar. Directed by Bill Couturié, it stars Ellen Burstyn, Tom Berenger, J. Kenneth Campbell. 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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