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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780780025059 Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0780025059 Label: Criterion Languages: Manufacturer: Criterion MPN: HEA060 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Criterion Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 25, 2002 Running Time: 112 minutes Studio: Criterion Theatrical Release Date: 1974 Editorial Review: Description: A courageous and startling film, Peter Davis' landmark documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronts the United States' involvement in Vietnam. Using a wealth of sources-from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at home and abroad-Davis constructs a powerfully affecting portrait of the disastrous effects of war. Explosive, persuasive, and shocking, Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and the controversial winner of the 1974 Academy Award® for Best Documentary. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Should be Required for Americans to WatchFor a historical perspective of the Vietnam War, this is a great starting point for those too young to remember or watch the nightly news while this revolution in America occurred where the war was stopped by protests and disillusion in the states. Some of the images here are graphic and a great statement about how horrible war is. Watching children with napalm still burning their body and seeing the famous execution photograph at point blank on tape is disturbing and I had to turn away. But by ... Read More Rating:  - ****** Hearts and Minds *****This is one of the most striking documentaries I have had the pleasure of watching related to an international conflict in the modern world - the Vietnam War. It is hard to imagine that this was filmed in 1974 yet conveys such a significant message to the world as it is 33 years later. It holds true to the idea that a great piece of art can stand the test of time for generations to come.. it also points so elegantly that mankind is doomed to repeat his/her mistakes over and over again. Read More Rating: - Powerful today as it was when it was filmedIt's hard to reflect on the Vietnam era after watching this film, but the comparison is astounding after viewing this award-winning film about America's involvement in Vietnam made in 1974 when U.S. forces were still in southeast Asia. Nothing about this film is easy. And everything about it is timely. Presenting the people of that age is second to none and Michael Moore couldn't have made a better film today. This documentary is graphic and revealing. Anyone interested in American foreign ... Read More Rating: - A compelling and enlightening look at why we fought in SE AsiaAn incredibly revealing documentary not only condemning (thru footage of what took place) the horrible violence inflicted on the Vietnamese but the inculcation of making an "enemy" in a nation far from the United States. American culture sees war as a football game. Nothing, and I do mean nothing, has changed between then, and now. The same comparisons to the "enemy" to "fighting for freedom" are made in this film by the same people you hear say it today, some soldiers and some politicians. ... Read More Rating: - Hearts and MindsAn ideal companion piece to Errol Morris's recent "The Fog of War," Davis's shattering, controversial film intercuts newsreel footage of the war's horrific impact with the ill-informed or misleading comments of its official supporters in the Pentagon and Congress. When the hard-hitting film won an Oscar for Best Documentary, producer Bert Schneider angered many at the ceremony with his overtly political acceptance speech. A devastating chronicle of a still-healing national wound, "Hearts and Minds" remains ... Read More |
