Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis, 1974, 35mm, 112 mins)

Filmmakers in person! 50th Anniversary screening! “One of the best documentaries ever made” (Desson Thomson), Hearts and Minds is an unflinching, Academy Award-winning examination of the Vietnam War and its vast human toll. “A cinematic essay of constant movement and provocation, a record of one man finding his way through the fog of war” (Scott Tobias). This screening will be followed by a discussion with director Peter Davis, producer/cinematographer Richard Pearce, and editor Lynzee Klingman. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.

“The Nixon Years: American Politics in the Early 1970s” is a series of documentary and fiction films focusing on that tumultuous time. This screening is co-presented by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Public Humanities at Yale, the Whitney Humanities Center, the Film and Media Studies Program, and the Yale Film Archive.