Movie

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Released: October 1, 1987 (1987)

Runtime: 84 minutes

Genres: Documentary, War

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.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Ellen Burstyn as Mrs. Stocks (voice)
Age at release: 54
Brian Dennehy as (voice)
Age at release: 49
Robert De Niro as Great Sewer (voice)
Age at release: 44
J. Kenneth Campbell as (voice)
Age at release: 40
Tom Berenger as (voice)
Age at release: 38
Josh Cruze as (voice)
Age at release: 37
Richard Chaves as (voice)
Age at release: 35
Willem Dafoe as Elephant Grass (voice)
Age at release: 32
Matt Dillon as Mike (voice)
Age at release: 23
Kevin Dillon as Jack (voice)
Age at release: 22

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Harvey Keitel as Donald Jacques (voice)
Age at release: 48
Martin Sheen as Alan (voice)
Age at release: 47
John Heard as Johnny Boy (voice)
Age at release: 41
Mark Harmon as (voice)
Age at release: 36
Robin Williams as (voice)
Age at release: 36
Kathleen Turner as Lynda Van Devanter (voice)
Age at release: 33
Eric Roberts as (voice)
Age at release: 31
Judd Nelson as (voice)
Age at release: 27
Sean Penn as (voice)
Age at release: 27
Michael J. Fox as Raymond Griffiths (voice)
Age at release: 26
Robert Downey Jr. as (voice)
Age at release: 22