Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

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Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
Directed byBill Couturié
Produced byBill Couturié
Bernard Edelman
Edited byGary Weimberg
Production
company
Couturié Company
Distributed byHBO
Release date
  • 1991 (1991)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers is a 1991 American short documentary film directed by Bill Couturié. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.[1] It shows footage from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, overlaid with readings of letters from US troops fighting in each war. The letters get read by Leo Downey, Robert Hegyes, Bill Irwin, Val Kilmer, James Naughton, Jim Tracy, Blair Underwood and Tom Hulce.

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  1. ^ "NY Times: Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2008.

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