Evaluation:
Published: 05.01.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'A Popular Documentary Film "Hearts and Minds"', 1.
Extract

"Hearts and Minds" is a very powerful and emotional documentary. This work is on the subject of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam. Using a wide variety of interviews as well as powerful real life footage from the Vietnam, "Hearts and Minds" achieve a task that few movies undertake.
The film joins together interviews with American politicians, army officers, war veterans, as well as Vietnamese citizens. Although this enables "Hearts and Minds" to displays a range of different viewpoints on the subject of Vietnam, it is clear that the filmmakers were against the war.

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