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Movie Overview
Cast
• Clark Clifford
• George Coker
• Daniel Ellsberg
Director
• Peter Davis
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Hearts and Minds (1975)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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"If you were ultimately disappointed by the agitprop entertainment of Fahrenheit 9/11, then check out its older, wiser brother to see how a real documentary is made."  Eye for Film  Anton Bitel

3.5/5
"The archetypal "important" documentary"  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

5/5
"It's Michael Moore's favorite documentary. See it anyway."  eFilmCritic.com  Dan Lybarger

"Ahead of the pack, filmmaker Peter Davis illustrates the human toll on 'victor' and 'vanquished.'"  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Donald J. Levit

4/5
"A definitive anti-war documentary which won an Academy Award in 1974 and has been restored for release in theaters."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

4/4
"has not lost its power to provoke and challenge our conventional understanding of patriotism and the necessity of war"  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

3.5/4
"Hearts and Minds is an essay told in a voice of thinly controlled moral outrage, which sometimes dribbles over into seething hate."  Slant Magazine  Jeremiah Kipp

8/10
"Even after three and a half decades this film still will be controversial and still has a real impact."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Mark R. Leeper

3.5/4
"An ambitious attempt to explain American involvement in Vietnam and its consequences"  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

5/5
"Quite simply, one of the greatest non-fiction films ever made."  Film Threat  Phil Hall
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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