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Hearts and Minds

United States

1974

112 Min
Color
1.85:1
English, French, Vietnamese
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DIR Peter Davis

PROD Bert Schneider, Henry Lange

DP Richard Pearce

CAST Georges Bidault, Clark Clifford, George Coker, Kay Dvorshock, Daniel Ellsburg, Randy Floyd, J. William Fulbright, Robert Muller, Khanh Nguyen, Walt Rostow, William C. Westmoreland

ED Lynzee Klingman, Susan Martin

SOUND Tom Cohen, Clara Noto

Cannes (Semaine de la critique)

Synopsis

A courageous and startling film, Peter Davis’s landmark documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronts the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. Using a wealth of sources—from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at home and abroad—Davis constructs a powerfully affecting portrait of the disastrous effects of war. Explosive, persuasive, and shocking, Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and the controversial winner of the 1974 Academy Award™ for Best Documentary. —The Criterion Collection

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emgenie

26Mar12

Amazingly put together, almost defining what it meant to be an american. Thought the cuts to college football were especially powerful.

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Poughkeepsie

22Oct11

Cutting back and forth between US military officials and Vietnam civilians during the Vietnam war, Hearts and Minds paints of a picture of the separation between those on the sidelines of war and those directly affected by its horrors.

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Daniel S.

13Aug11

A story of manipulations. And nobody, or no country, had the courage to take the responsibility of all these deaths and destroyed lives. Just a sum of diminished responsibilities. Shame.

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Christofer Pierson

23May11

Paraphrasing Ellsberg: It's a tribute to the American people that five presidents felt they had to lie to promote the war in Vietnam. Not sch a tribute that the lies went down so easily.

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