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07/09/07
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
US Box Office: $0
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
The archetypal "important" documentary
06/26/02
Still shocking, still powerful, still prudent. What is it they say about the more things change?
04/01/06
Top CriticIt's Michael Moore's favorite documentary. See it anyway.
03/21/09
No review available.
03/24/05
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.
10/22/04
Top CriticA masterful documentary, one of the most unsettling discussions of Vietnam and its aftermath ever to appear in any medium.
01/01/00
Ahead of the pack, filmmaker Peter Davis illustrates the human toll on 'victor' and 'vanquished.'
03/11/09
No review available.
06/27/05
A definitive anti-war documentary which won an Academy Award in 1974 and has been restored for release in theaters.
03/12/09
It is a carefully structured yet highly emotional argument against the war in Vietnam.
12/03/04
has not lost its power to provoke and challenge our conventional understanding of patriotism and the necessity of war
06/30/02
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
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
Not only the definitive American documentary about the war in Vietnam but a landmark political action.
03/17/09
A reminder of how the best documentaries can resonate years after their release.
11/12/04
The definitive Vietnam War documentary and arguably the greatest political documentary ever made.
03/20/09
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
Even after three and a half decades this film still will be controversial and still has a real impact.
03/02/09
An ambitious attempt to explain American involvement in Vietnam and its consequences
09/17/02
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