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04/01/06
Hearts and Minds (1975)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:28
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: A powerful, unflinching exploration of the Vietnam War, with first-person stories from both sides of the conflict, Hearts and Minds still hits the mark decades after its release.
Theatrical Release:11-11-2005
Synopsis: A landmark in documentary feature films, this Academy Award-winning documentary is an insightful critique of the US's cataclysmic involvement in Vietnam. The film exposes the duplicitous nature of... [More]
Starring: Clark Clifford, George Coker, Daniel Ellsberg, J.W. Fulbright
Director: Peter Davis
Reviews for Hearts and Minds
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06/24/06
Top CriticThe 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.
04/07/09
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.
10/19/04
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.
03/10/03
If you were ultimately disappointed by the agitprop entertainment of Fahrenheit 9/11, then check out its older, wiser brother to see how a real documentary is made.
07/09/07
A definitive anti-war documentary which won an Academy Award in 1974 and has been restored for release in theaters.
03/12/09
Elicits a palpable emotional and intellectual effect...strikes the same sad note of discord thirty years later.
09/26/04
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.
05/09/05
Top CriticA masterful documentary, one of the most unsettling discussions of Vietnam and its aftermath ever to appear in any medium.
01/01/00
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.
10/23/04
Top CriticIt is a carefully structured yet highly emotional argument against the war in Vietnam.
12/03/04
Watching this documentary almost thirty years after it was made, Hearts and Minds is still filled with emotion and conveys what the great silent majority wanted to say: End the war!
03/12/03
Quite simply, one of the greatest non-fiction films ever made.
03/20/09
has not lost its power to provoke and challenge our conventional understanding of patriotism and the necessity of war
06/30/02
A reminder of how the best documentaries can resonate years after their release.
11/12/04
Hearts and Minds is an essay told in a voice of thinly controlled moral outrage, which sometimes dribbles over into seething hate.
03/19/09
Even after three and a half decades this film still will be controversial and still has a real impact.
03/02/09
Ahead of the pack, filmmaker Peter Davis illustrates the human toll on 'victor' and 'vanquished.'
03/11/09
It's Michael Moore's favorite documentary. See it anyway.
03/21/09
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