What is summary of " hearts and minds" video over the Vietnam war?

 

First, note that the Hearts and Minds is a powerful anti-war documentary that examines the Vietnam War and the disaster it caused. The opening clip portrays United States post World War II and really manages to bring to light the superiority U.S. felt after World War II. The documentary highlights how in its newfound glory the U.S. government might have started to feel a sense of "responsibility towards the rest of the world and how they might have thought they could even control the world in the future. From the very beginning the documentary makes no excuse to justify the United States involvement in Vietnam and it unravels what a disaster the Vietnam War had caused.

The beginning of the video begins with children running around in a Vietnamese village and people working in the fields. The next few minutes portrays United States entitlement and power they felt they had established after World War II. Over and over the documentary emphasizes on the Vietnam war turning into a genocide and that the war was simply started because it would benefit the United States. The documentary shows different people being interviewed, among these people were many Vietnamese people who mentioned how their homes have been destroyed, children have been killed,

The film premiered at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival and the commercial distribution was delayed in the United States due to legal issues, including a temporary restraining order obtained by one of the interviewees, former National Security Advisor Walt Rostow who had claimed through his attorney that the film was somewhat misleading and not representative and that he had not been given the opportunity to approve the results of his interview.