The Fog of War

  • Rated 7.7 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 2003
  • 1h 47m
  • Documentary

Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. Augmented by archival footage and cabinet conversation recordings, Errol Morris gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history.

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Director
Errol Morris
Starring
Robert McNamara, Errol Morris, Fidel Castro, Barry Goldwater

Cast

  • Robert McNamara

    Robert McNamara

    Self

  • Errol Morris

    Errol Morris

    Self (uncredited)

  • Fidel Castro

    Fidel Castro

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Barry Goldwater

    Barry Goldwater

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Nikita Khrushchev

    Nikita Khrushchev

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Curtis LeMay

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Harry Reasoner

    Harry Reasoner

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Self (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

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