The Fog of War

2003 · 107 min · ★ 7.7 / 10 · 307 votes

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.

Cast

Robert McNamara · Errol Morris · Fidel Castro · Barry Goldwater · John F. Kennedy · Nikita Khrushchev · Curtis LeMay · Richard Nixon · Harry Reasoner · Franklin D. Roosevelt

Director

Errol Morris