The Fog of War (2003)

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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.

• Released: 2003-10-26
• Genres: Documentary
• Runtime: 1h 47m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 7.7/10 from 311 votes

Directed by Errol Morris.

Top cast

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

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Where to watch The Fog of War

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