Hearts & Minds (1974) [The Criterion Collection #156] [REPOST]

A documentary of the conflicting attitudes of the opponents of the Vietnam war.

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.



Director: Peter Davis
Cast: Georges Bidault, Clark Clifford, George Coker, Kay Dvorshock, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Daniel Ellsberg, Randy Floyd, J. William Fulbright, Brian Holden, William Marshall, Robert Muller, Khanh Nguyen, Walt Rostow, William C. Westmoreland, Ngo Dinh Diem, Chi Minh Ho, Bob Hope, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Ngoc Loan Nguyen, Richard Nixon, George S. Patton IV, Thi Kim Phuc Phan, Ronald Reagan, Maxwell Taylor, Nguyen Van Thieu

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This film recounts the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War using archival news footage as well as their own film and interviews. A key theme is how attitudes of American racism and self-righteousness militarism helped create and prolong this bloody conflict. The film also endeaveors to give voice to the Vietnamese people themselves as to how the war has affected them and their reasons why they fight the United States and other western powers while showing the basic humanity of the people that US propaganda tried to dismiss.

Disc Features
- New digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions
- Audio commentary by director Peter Davis
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

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