The Fog of War

The Fog of War (2003)

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.

Date of release
2003-10-26
TMDB
7.7 / 10 (308)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Errol Morris

Casting

  • Robert McNamara — Self
  • Errol Morris — Self (uncredited)
  • Fidel Castro — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Barry Goldwater — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • John F. Kennedy — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Nikita Khrushchev — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Curtis LeMay — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Richard Nixon — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Harry Reasoner — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt — Self (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Woodrow Wilson — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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