Hearts and Minds
A startling and courageous film, Peter Davis’s landmark 1974 documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronted the United States’ involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it. Using a wealth of sources—from interviews to newsreels to footage of the conflict and the upheaval it occasioned on the home front—Davis constructs a powerfully affecting picture of the disastrous effects of war. Explosive, persuasive, and wrenching, Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and the most important nonfiction film ever made about this devastating period in history.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital restoration, supervised by director Peter Davis and cinematographer Richard Pearce, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring Davis
- A collection of over two hours of Davis’s unused footage, including excerpts from interviews with presidential adviser George Ball, broadcast journalist David Brinkley, French journalist and historian Philippe Devillers, and political activist Tony Russo; additional excerpts from General William Westmoreland’s interview; additional audio excerpts from presidential adviser Walt Rostow’s interview; and scenes from a funeral and a military hospital in South Vietnam
- PLUS: Essays by Davis, film critic Judith Crist, and historians Robert K. Brigham, George C. Herring, and Ngo Vinh Long
Cover by Luba Lukova
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital restoration, supervised by director Peter Davis and cinematographer Richard Pearce, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring Davis
- A collection of over two hours of Davis’s unused footage, including excerpts from interviews with presidential adviser George Ball, broadcast journalist David Brinkley, French journalist and historian Philippe Devillers, and political activist Tony Russo; additional excerpts from General William Westmoreland’s interview; additional audio excerpts from presidential adviser Walt Rostow’s interview; and scenes from a funeral and a military hospital in South Vietnam
- PLUS: Essays by Davis, film critic Judith Crist, and historians Robert K. Brigham, George C. Herring, and Ngo Vinh Long
Cover by Luba Lukova
Cast
- Georges Bidault
- Featuring
- Clark Clifford
- Lieutenant George Coker
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Randy Floyd
- Nguyen Ngoc Linh
- Robert Muller
- General Nguyen Khanh
- Walt Rostow
- Nguyen Thi Sau
- Edward Sowders
- Father Chan Tin
- General William Westmoreland
Credits
- Director
- Peter Davis
- Produced by
- Bert Schneider
- Produced by
- Peter Davis
- Film editors
- Lynzee Klingman
- Film editors
- Susan Martin
- Photographed by
- Richard Pearce
- Associate producers
- Tom Cohen
- Associate producers
- Richard Pearce
- Research
- Brennon Jones
- Sound
- Tom Cohen
- Production managers
- Brennon Jones
- Production managers
- Michael Burns
- Assistant film editors
- Charles Musser
- Assistant film editors
- Antoinette Cooper
- Assistant film editors
- David Davis
- Assistant film editors
- Bonnie Kozek
- Sound editor
- James Nelson
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