Last Letters Home - Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq
by Bill Couturie
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Director: Bill CouturieBrand: HBO Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 92619
Studio: Hbo Home Video
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- Produced and directed by Oscar and Emmy Award winner Bill Couturi (HBO's Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam), this one-hour documentary is an intimate, deeply moving tribute to American soldiers recently killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Produced in association with LIFE books and the New York Times. HBO Video's net proceeds from this program will benefit the families of soldiers who hav
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DVD Review: The consequences of war, up close and very personal
Summary: 5 Stars
Last Letters Home is as close as anyone wants to come to experiencing the death of a loved one in wartime. Filmmaker Bill Couturie takes a back seat in this powerful documentary, allowing mourning families to tell their own stories about those they loved and lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Each family reads aloud their last letter, then recounts in their own words the day that changed their lives forever. It is at times difficult to watch as family members struggle to hold onto all that they have left - letters, photographs and memories of happier times.
Pain and pride redraw the lines on the faces of the survivors as they read the precious letters aloud. Watching Lloyd Byers read his son Josh's letter is like watching a proud father's dreams being cruelly snuffed out. Over and and over, the viewer's heart is broken as another family bravely recounts their very personal struggles.
Last Letters honors all fallen soldiers, but the film is largely about the families' attempts to go on in the face of nearly unbearable sadness: A mother's only son. A young wife, pregnant with her husband's third child, whom he'll never see. A woman sharing a Mother's Day card she received from her fallen son after his death. It is hard to imagine that these are only 10 of more than 1,500 dead as of this writing, that 1400 other stories of heartache and loss go untold; the emotional toll seems too great.
Last Letters, then, is a sober document that honors all those personally affected by war, those gone but not forgotton and those who are left to remember.
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LAST LETTERS HOME - DVD MovieTouching and powerful, Last Letters Home is an emotional documentary that features 10 families reading aloud the last letters they received from loved ones who lost their lives in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Presented in a suitably straightforward, unembellished style by director Bill Couturié (director of HBO's Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam), the film displays close-up pictures of the soldiers in military and civilian life as family members read and reminisce (of the 10 soldiers profiled, the oldest was 51 years old; the youngest was only 19). In the end, this film, which premiered on HBO, is really about the families left behind to mourn and honor the lives of the fallen. In one typically poignant piece, the mother of fallen SPC Robert Allen Wise relates the moment when she received the dreaded news. It was her birthday. She had been expecting to hear from her son but, as she says, "I got a knock on the door instead.... When you open the door and you see two uniforms and a chaplain... nobody has to say anything." To their credit, the families are admirably open in sharing their experiences; there are outpourings of profound grief and sadness, but there is also immense pride and joy in the memories of their loved ones who served. It may be difficult to watch at times, but seeing the personal cost of war, unfiltered by network news and unstained by political agendas, makes Letters an intensely intimate and human experience. --Dan Vancini
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