Hearts and Minds

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Hearts & Minds

Hearts & Minds, winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary, presents a provocative examination of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. It chronicles the war more from a psychological than political perspective, tracing the cultural forces and attitudes that led and kept us there. The film offers personal recollections from all sides of the conflict - generals, presidential advisors, a deserter, an ex-POW, limbless casualities, Vietnamese and French government officials, peasants from the North and South, and from a Vietnamese coffin maker who had lost seven of his own children. Hearts & Minds portrays the war as a manifestation of misguided patriotism and blind ignorance buttressed by racism, self-righteousness, and anti-communist hysteria. It strongly expresses the brutality and dire human consequences of war.

DVD - The Criterion Collection

Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Available subtitles: English
Commentary by director Peter Davis
New Digital Transfer Supervised By the Director and Cinematographer
Accompanying Booklet Containing Multiple Printed Essays On The Film

Director: Peter Davis
Color
112 minutes
Released: 1974
Rated: R

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