Hearts and minds [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Touchstone-Audjeff Production for BBS ; a Howard Zuker/Henry Jaglom Rainbow Pictures presentation ; producers, Bert Schneider, Peter Davis ; director, Peter Davis.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: HEA060 | Criterion CollectionLanguage: English, Vietnamese Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 156.Publication details: [New York] : Criterion Collection, c2002.Edition: Widescreen version ; RSDL Dual-layer edDescription: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (19 x 12 cm.)ISBN: - 0780025059
- 9780780025059
- Title on label: Hearts & minds
- Editors, Lynzee Klingman, Susan Martin.
- Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1974.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The title of this documentary was inspired by the mantra recited by those in charge of the Vietnam War: "In order to win the war, we must win the hearts and minds of the people." The failure to achieve this, coupled with the disastrous no-win policies of the higher-ups, is the nucleus of this film, put together by director Peter Davis in the same manner as Marcel Ophuls' The Sorrow and the Pity. Like the Ophuls film, Davis juxtaposes news footage of the Vietnam war with interviews conducted with its observers and participants, interspersing vignettes of the fatuous comments made by the generals and politicians. The film was briefly withdrawn from distribution when Walter Rostow, one-time advisor to President Johnson, insisted that his reputation had been damaged and demanded that the two minutes featuring Rostow on-camera be deleted. More controversy arose when Hearts and Minds won the Best Documentary Oscar, whereupon the Academy issued a statement--read during the awards ceremony by Frank Sinatra--that it did not condone or advocate the volatile statements made by the producers during their acceptance speech. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Enhanced for Widescreen TVs 16:9.
Special features includes audio commentary by the director, Peter Davis; new high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Peter Davis and cinematographer Richard Pearce; 32-page booklet featuring essays on the Vietnam War and the historical context for Hearts and minds.
Theatrical aspect ratio (1.85:1).
Videodisc release of the 1974 motion picture.
Editors, Lynzee Klingman, Susan Martin.
Various contributors.
Examines the American involvement in Vietnam, and is a chronicle of the war from a psychological perspective. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland, former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, Senator William Fulbright, Walt Rostow, and Daniel Ellsberg, as well as American Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese leaders. Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon are shown in rare footage.
DVD; Dolby Digital, Mono.
English with some Vietnamese ; closed-captioned.
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1974.