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10/30/04
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
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'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.
10/22/04
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
Elicits a palpable emotional and intellectual effect...strikes the same sad note of discord thirty years later.
09/26/04
The unnerving brilliance of the film owes to the director's skill at assembling information and allowing it to speak for itself.
09/24/04
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03/12/03
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
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
An ambitious attempt to explain American involvement in Vietnam and its consequences
09/17/02
has not lost its power to provoke and challenge our conventional understanding of patriotism and the necessity of war
06/30/02
The archetypal "important" documentary
06/26/02
A masterful documentary, one of the most unsettling discussions of Vietnam and its aftermath ever to appear in any medium.
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