THE FOG OF WAR (2003)
ERROL MORRIS
DocumentaryPoliticsTrue Stories1960s1970sWar1940sMedia/JournalismRecommendedSarah's SpecialsOscar Winners
Plot
Robert McNamara was the American secretary of defence during the presidencies of both Kennedy and Johnson, a man that history hasn't got much good to say about. In this remarkable interview McNamara attempts to cast himself in a more favourable light, but it is his revelations concerning the whys and wherefores of events such as the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam which make the Fog of War such a hypnotic documentary. Superb.