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Hearts and Minds
Directed by
Peter Davis
R
1974
1h 52m
Documentary
,
War
,
and more
8.2
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A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.
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Cast of Hearts and Minds
Clark Clifford
Self - Aide to President Truman 1946-50
John Foster Dulles
Self (archive footage)
Georges Bidault
Self - French Foreign Minister in 1954
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
George Coker
Self - Prisoner of War 1966-73
Walt Rostow
Self - Aide to Presidents Kennedy, Johnson
J. William Fulbright
Self - Senator
Randy Floyd
Self - Former Navy Captain
Charles Hoey
Self - U.S. Air Force, Saigon
Jerry Holter
Self - U.S. Air Force, Saigon
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Joseph McCarthy
Self (archive footage)
Stan Holder
Self - Former Corporal
Bobby Muller
Self - Former 1st Lieutenant
Daniel Ellsberg
Self - Former Aide, Defense Dept., Rand Corp.
William C. Westmoreland
Self - Commanding General, Vietnam 1964-68
Nguyen Van Tai
Self - Hung Dinh Village
Vo Thi Tu
Self - Hung Dinh Village
Vo Thi Hue
Self - Hung Dinh Village
Father Chan Tin
Self - Saigon
Diem Chau
Self - Editor, Trinh Bay Magazine
Hồ Chí Minh
Self (archive footage)
David Emerson
Self - Concord, Massachusetts
Mui Duc Giang
Self - Saigon
Edward Sowders
Self - Former Spec/5, Army Deserter
Lora Sowders
Self - Detroit
Barton Osborn
Self - Former Army Intelligence Officer, CIA
George Trendell
Self - Sergeant
Thich Lieu Minh
Self - An Quang Pagoda, Saigon
William Marshall
Self - Former Sergeant
George Patton IV
Self - Colonel
Duong Van Khai
Self - Refugee Outside Hung Dinh Village
Nguyen Ngoc Linh
Self - Chairman, Mekong Conglomerate
Michael V. Sulsona
Self - Former Sergeant
I. F. Stone
Self - Journalist (voice)
Eugene McCarthy
Self - Senator (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
Self - Senator (archive footage)
Kay Dvorshock
Self - Bobby Muller's Girlfriend
Ngo Dinh Diem
Self (archive footage)
Nguyễn Khánh
Self - President of South Vietnam 1964-65
Maxwell Taylor
Self - Ambassador to South Vietnam 1964-65 (archive footage)
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Self (archive footage)
Nguyen Thi Sau
Self - Former Political Prisoner
Ngô Bá Thành
Self - Political Prisoner (archive footage)
Mary Cochran Emerson
Self - Wife of David Emerson
Bob Hope
Self (archive footage)
Hearts and Minds Ratings & Reviews
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
A cry of despair made by a person whose viewpoint hadn't yet been soundly vindicated.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
We're bludgeoned by the point of view, we don't like the feeling of manipulation we get. Yet there are scenes here of incredible power, even for a nation which watched this war on television every evening.
San Francisco Chronicle
Steven Winn
The unnerving brilliance of the film owes to the director's skill at assembling information and allowing it to speak for itself.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Hearts and Minds is a tough film but it is no mere rehash of sad events. It is always aware of the primacy of man when man's given even half a chance.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
has not lost its power to provoke and challenge our conventional understanding of patriotism and the necessity of war
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
It's a cinematic essay of constant movement and provocation, a record of one man finding his way through the fog of war.
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
Hearts and Minds is an essay told in a voice of thinly controlled moral outrage, which sometimes dribbles over into seething hate.
TIME Magazine
Stefan Kanfer
Throughout, Hearts and Minds displays more than enough heart. It is mind that is missing.
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
Not only the definitive American documentary about the war in Vietnam but a landmark political action.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
A reminder of how the best documentaries can resonate years after their release.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's one of the best documentaries ever made, a superb film about the thoughts and feelings of the era, the whole festering, spirited animus of it.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Davis's film seems as much a prosecution of the present as it is of the recent past; only the names and geographies have been changed.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Now more than ever. The time has never been more appropriate for a re-screening of this Oscar-winning documentary about America's involvement in Vietnam.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
A masterful documentary, one of the most unsettling discussions of Vietnam and its aftermath ever to appear in any medium.
The Nation
Robert Hatch
It operates to arouse hatred against hatred, to induce a gut reaction against gut reactions, and by so doing serves to sustain a morbid emotionalism of the very sort it claims to abominate.
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
... the first film to confront exactly what the United States did in Vietnam in the name of fighting communism and winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people.
PopMatters
Michael Abernethy
The urgency of Hearts and Minds, its anger and its articulation, its insistence that effects of war be visible, and its cogent analysis of connections among politics, media, and the military, all seem apt lessons for today.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Peter Davis' Oscar-winning feature is a must-see documentary about Vietnam.
New York Press
Armond White
Davis' visual argument overwhelms rationality.This was the beginning of Red/Blue antagonism -- turning benighted patriotism against an opponent's humanity.
Common Sense Media
Brian Costello
Provocative Vietnam War docu with violence, racial slurs.
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