Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam

With the book of the same name as a basis, the director directly confronts the spectator with the shocking experience, the doubts, emotions and homesickness of the young Americans that lost their youth in a short time in Vietnam. has been built up around uncensored letters sent to loved ones, relatives and friends by soldiers (most of them still teenagers) in the midst of war. Prominent actors such as Robert DeNiro, Martin Sheen en Ellen Burstyn read the letters in voice-over.
Couturie went through thousands of metres of films, among which are yet unused material, selected fragments from private super-8 films and chose pictures and slides from family albums. He accompanies this compilation of images that hardly need an explanation, with the sound of those days via a soundtrack of sixties music with tracks that were cherished both by servicemen and stay-at-homes during the Vietnam war.