United States
1974
112 minutes
Color
1.85:1
English
156
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.
| Georges Bidault | |
| Clark Clifford | |
| George Coker | |
| Kay Dvorshock | |
| Daniel Ellsburg | |
| Randy Floyd | |
| J. William Fulbright | |
| Robert Muller | |
| Khanh Nguyen | |
| Walt Rostow | |
| William C. Westmoreland |
| Director | Peter Davis |
| Cinematography | Richard Pearce |
| Producer | Bert Schneider and Henry Lange |
| Editing | Lynzee Klingman and Susan Martin |
| Sound | Tom Cohen and Clara Noto |
| Editorial department | Charles Musser |
The American war in Vietnam was officially divided into two halves: The military war and “The Other War: The War to Win Hearts and Minds of the People,” which gives this documentary its title. Whereas the aim of the military war was to kill large numbers of the enemy through “search...
One of the most important contributions Hearts and Minds makes to our national dialogue on the Vietnam war is it portrayal of ordinary Vietnamese. For years, the Vietnamese had been conspicuous by their absence in film and texts. When they did appear, it was usually as one...
Peter Davis’ provocative Oscar-winning Hearts and Minds, released to the American public in 1975, is that rare documentary whose truths and relevance have been underlined and amplified by the passage of time. The title is derived from President Lyndon B. Johnson’s noting, as he escalated...
Hearts and Minds is the classic documentary antiwar film of the Vietnam era. It was released in 1974, one year after the United States withdrew its military forces from Vietnam, a year before North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front (NLF) forces toppled the American-sponsored...
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