The Fog of War

(2003)

★ 7.7 IMDb · 306 votes

Genres: Documentary, телевизионный фильм

Year: 2003

Runtime: 107 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Эррол Моррис

Cast: Robert McNamara, Эррол Моррис, Фидель Кастро, Барри Голдуотер, Джон Фицджералд Кеннеди, Никита Хрущёв, Curtis LeMay, Ричард Никсон, Harry Reasoner, Франклин Делано Рузвельт

Plot

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

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. This Academy Award-winning documentary, augmented by archival footage, 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.