Letter to a Hero

5.6

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 17 min
Premiere: 1943. January 1.

Director: Larry O'Reilly
Writer: Ardis Smith Meyer Berger
Starring: Ann Dere

Letter to a Hero is a 1943 American short documentary film produced by Frederic Ullman Jr. A school teacher in Monroe, NY writes a letter to her former student who is fighting in WWII. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 16th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.