Hearts and Minds (1974)

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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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Peter Davis

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Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination.
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Documentary concerning the atrocities of the Vietnam war

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Directed by

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Peter Davis

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Mike Burns	...	associate producer (uncredited)
Tom Cohen	...	associate producer
Peter Davis	...	producer
Henry Lange	...	producer (uncredited)
Richard Pearce	...	associate producer
Bob Rafelson	...	producer (uncredited)
Bert Schneider	...	producer

Cinematography by

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Richard Pearce
Lennart Malmer	...	cinematographer: North Vietnam (uncredited)

Editing by

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Lynzee Klingman
Susan Martin

Editorial Department

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Antoinette Cooper	...	assistant editor
David Davis	...	assistant editor
Bonnie Kozek	...	assistant editor
Adrian Mosser	...	color negative
Charles Musser	...	assistant editor

Production Management

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Mike Burns	...	production manager (as Michael Burns)
Brennon Jones	...	production manager

Sound Department

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Tom Cohen	...	sound
Francis Daniel	...	second unit sound
Barbara Kopple	...	second unit sound
Carole S. Marner	...	second unit sound
Karen Mitnick	...	second unit sound
James Nelson	...	sound editor
Clair Noto	...	dialogue editor (uncredited)

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Michael Anderson	...	second unit camera
Michael F. Barrow	...	head gaffer (as Michael Barrows)
Ralf D. Bode	...	second unit camera (as Ralph Bode)
Don Lenzer	...	second unit camera
Ed Lynch	...	second unit camera
Eugene Marner	...	second unit camera

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Dell Byrne	...	historical film research
Pierre Cottrell	...	consultant: France
Frank Davis	...	feature motion picture research
Tran Hung Duo	...	translator
Thomas C. Fox	...	consultant: Vietnam
Barbara Gore	...	translator
Brennon Jones	...	research
Nguyen Si Quoc	...	translator
Chips Sowerwine	...	consultant: France
Le Thai To	...	translator
Le Thanh Tong	...	translator
Trung Trac	...	translator
Ira Wohl	...	production research
David Wyles	...	feature motion picture research (as David J. Wyles)
Howard R. Schuster	...	financing (uncredited)

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Warner Bros. (1974) (United States) (theatrical)
Columbia-Warner Distributors (1975) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
Sandrew Film & Teater AB (1975) (Sweden) (theatrical)
Paramount Home Entertainment (1981) (United States) (VHS) (pam and scan)
Rialto Pictures (2004) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release)
The Criterion Collection (2004) (United States) (DVD)
The Criterion Collection (2014) (United States) (DVD)

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Cinema Research (color negative)
EUE (color negative)
Consolidated Film Industries (CFI) (titles)
Praxis Film Works (optical photography)
Dickson/Vasu (optical photography)
Producers' Sound Service (sound re-recording)

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Plot Summary	This film recounts the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War using archival news footage as well as its own film and interviews. A key theme is how attitudes of American racism and self-righteous militarism helped create and prolong this bloody conflict. The film also endeavors to give voice to the Vietnamese people themselves as to how the war has affected them and their reasons why they fight the United States and other western powers while showing the basic humanity of the people that US propaganda tried to dismiss. Written by Kenneth Chisholm Plot Summary
Plot Keywords	national-film-registry female-nudity female-rear-nudity female-frontal-nudity female-full-frontal-nudity See All (55) »
Genres	Documentary History War
Parents Guide	View content advisory »
Certification	Brazil:14 Sweden:15 United Kingdom:15 (DVD rating) United Kingdom:X United States:R

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Also Known As	Le coeur et l'esprit (France) Καρδιές και πνεύμα (Greece) ハーツ・アンド・マインズ　ベトナム戦争の真実 (Japan, Japanese title) Сердца и мысли (Soviet Union, Russian title) I frihetens namn (Sweden) See more »
Runtime	112 min
Official Sites	Criterion HBOMAX
Country	United States
Language	English French Vietnamese
Color	Color
Aspect Ratio	1.85 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix	Mono
Filming Locations	Linden, New Jersey, USA See more »

Box Office

Opening Weekend United States

$8,556, 22 Oct 2004

Did You Know?

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Trivia	During his Oscar acceptance speech producer Bert Schneider read a letter from the head of the Viet Cong lauding his film. Bob Hope prompted Oscar host Frank Sinatra to disclaim any political statements that had been made during the show. See more »
Movie Connections	Featured in Take 2: Vietnam Movies (1980). See more »
Soundtracks	500 Miles See more »
Crazy Credits	The listed translators credited in the movie (Le Thai To, Trung Trac, Le Thanh Tong and Trung Hung Dao) were all Vietnamese generals who had defeated the Chinese in various times from the first century C.E., to the fifteenth century C.E. The translator listed as Nguyen Ai Quoc was an early alias of Ho Chi Minh, founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party. I have no knowledge of the last listed translator, Barbara Gore. Apparently, someone played a good joke on the producers of this film, if it wasn't the translators themselves. See more »
Quotes	Daniel Ellsberg: The question used to be: might it be possible that we were on the wrong side in the Vietnamese War? But, we weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side. See more »

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	Tin Chan	...	Self (as Father Chan Tin - Saigon)
	Chau Diem	...	Self - Editor of Trinh Bay Magazine
	Ngo Dinh Diem	...	Self - President of South Vietnam (archiveFootage)
	John Foster Dulles	...	Self - Secretary of State, 1953-1959 (archiveFootage)
	Kay Dvorshock	...	Self (archiveFootage)
	Dwight D. Eisenhower	...	Self - President of the United States (archiveFootage)
	David Emerson	...	Self - Concord, Massachusetts
	Mui Duc Giang	...	Self - Coffin Maker
	Charles Hoey	...	Self - Air Force, Saigon
	Stan Holder	...	Self - Corporal, Placitas, New Mexico
	Jerry Holter	...	Self - Air Force, Saigon
	Vo Thi Hue	...	Self - Hung Dinh Village
	Lyndon B. Johnson	...	Self (archiveFootage) (as Lyndon Johnson)
	John F. Kennedy	...	Self - President of the United States (archiveFootage)
	Robert F. Kennedy	...	Self - U.S. Senator (archiveFootage)
	William Marshall	...	Self (as Sgt. WIlliam Marshall - Detroit)
	Eugene McCarthy	...	Self - U.S. Senator (archiveFootage)
	Ho Chí Minh	...	Self (archiveFootage)
	Thich Lieu Minh	...	Self - An Quang Pagoda
	Ngoc Loan Nguyen	...	Self - Chairman, Mekong Conglomerate; Former Cabinet Minister (archiveFootage)
	Van Tai Nguyen	...	Self - Hung Dinh Village
	Richard Nixon	...	Self - President of the United States (archiveFootage)
	Don North	...	Self - ABC News (archiveSound)
	K. Barton Osborn	...	Self
	George S. Patton IV	...	Self (archiveFootage)
	Thi Kim Phuc Phan	...	Self (archiveFootage)
	Nguyen Thi Sau	...	Self - Former Political Prisoner
	Edward Sowders	...	Self - Army Deserter
	Lora Sowders	...	Self
	I.F. Stone	...	Self (archiveSound)
	Michael Sulsona	...	Self (as Mike Sulsona)
	Maxwell Taylor	...	Self - Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1964-1965 (archiveFootage)
	Ngo Ba Thanh	...	Self - Political Prisoner
	George Trendell	...	Self (as Sgt. George Trendell)
	Vo Thi Tu	...	Self - Hung Ding Village
	Paul Udell	...	Self - NBC News
	Van Khanh Duong	...	Self - Hung Dinh Village
	Georges Bidault	...	Self - French Foreign Minister in 1954 (uncredited)
	Les Brown	...	Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Clark Clifford	...	Self - Aide to President Truman, 1946-1950; Secretary of Defense, 1968-1969 (uncredited)
	George Coker	...	Self - POW, 1966-1973 (uncredited)
	Daniel Ellsberg	...	Self - Former Aide, Defense Dept., Rand Corp. (uncredited)
	Randy Floyd	...	Self (uncredited)
	J. William Fulbright	...	Self - U.S. Senator; Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee (uncredited)
	Helen Hayes	...	Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Brian Holden	...	Self (uncredited)
	J. Edgar Hoover	...	Self - Director of the F.B.I. (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Bob Hope	...	Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Henry Hull	...	Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Joseph McCarthy	...	Self - U.S. Senator (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Robert Muller	...	Self - Former Marine 1st. Lieutenant (uncredited)
	Khanh Nguyen	...	Self - President of South Vietnam, 1964-1965 (uncredited)
	Ronald Reagan	...	Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Walt Rostow	...	Self - Aide to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson (uncredited)
	Harry S. Truman	...	Self - President of the United States (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	Nguyen Van Thieu	...	Self - President of South Vietnam (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
	William C. Westmoreland	...	Self - Commanding General, Vietnam, 1964-1968 (uncredited)