The Fog of War (2003)
Overview
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
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)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry Reasoner
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Woodrow Wilson
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