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Hearts and Minds

Release Date:December 20, 1974

Running Time:112 min

Genres:Documentary, War

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Cast

Clark Clifford John Foster Dulles Georges Bidault Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Richard Nixon Lyndon B. Johnson George Coker Walt Rostow J. William Fulbright Randy Floyd

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Synopsis

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

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