New Academy-Restored 35mm Print!
Academy Award-Winning Documentary!
HEARTS AND MINDS

"The ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people."-Lyndon Baines Johnson. Documentarian Peter Davis (THE SELLING OF THE PENTAGON) combined newsreel clips, TV reports, and striking color footage shot here and in a still war-torn Vietnam, eschewing narration to let raw footage paint its own vivid portrait of the South and North Vietnamese, the Americans engineering the war here and abroad-and its critics. The images in the portrait: A quiet, peaceful village, the only sound the rattlings of a cart when a soldier wanders into the shot; a US POW returning to a flag-waiving parade; airmen visiting a Saigon brothel; presidents, prime ministers and pundits from Truman to Nixon to Ellsberg and Bidault commenting on the war; a Vietnamese coffin maker explaining that the small ones are for children; and former US Commander General William Westmoreland opining, "The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as the Westerner." Shelved by its original studio as too hot a potato, it was released by another company to box office and critical acclaim (Oscar, Best Documentary). Thirty years later, all prints had faded. After a two-year effort by the Academy Film Archive, its lush color photography has been painstakingly restored. Now-in its full breadth-back on the big screen for the first time.

Directed by Peter Davis; produced by Bert Schneider. US, 1974, color, 112 min. RATED R.

SPECIAL EVENT! On Saturday, October 16, at 7:30 p.m. SILVERDOCS and Discovery Times Channel present: The Washington Premiere of the new 35mm Restored Print of the Academy Award-winning HEARTS AND MINDS with Director Peter Davis, Political Activist Daniel Ellsberg and Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation President Bobby Muller IN PERSON for a post-screening discussion!