Directed by Peter Davis • 1974 • United States
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.
Recorded in 2001, this audio commentary features director Peter Davis.
In 1945, Philippe Devillers was assigned as press attaché to French General Philippe Leclerc and concurrently acted as the Indochina correspondent for “Le monde.” Devillers, who authored several books on Vietnam, was critical of French and American policies in Vietnam and here discusses the misco...
As undersecretary of state to President John F. Kennedy, George Ball was an early opponent of America’s military involvement in Vietnam. In Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, he was one of the few advisers to argue against the U.S.’s escalation of the war. He resigned in 1966. In these excerpts,...
