Fresh
Mr. Couturie, the director, and his associates have done a first-rate job.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Addressed to the heart of America.
1987 · 1h 24m · PG-13
Documentary, War
Directed by
Bill Couturié
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
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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The first film about Vietnam to come to us free of bias, free of rhetoric.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
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What Couturie and his researchers have done is amazing.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The missives get you where you live.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
An intensely moving and disturbing experience.
Time Out
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