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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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
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Robert McNamaraSelf
Errol MorrisSelf (uncredited)
Fidel CastroSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
Barry GoldwaterSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
John F. KennedySelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nikita KhrushchevSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard NixonSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry ReasonerSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franklin D. RooseveltSelf (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Woodrow WilsonSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Director
- Errol Morris
- Producer
- Errol Morris
- Producer
- Michael Williams
- Original Music Composer
- Philip Glass
- Director of Photography
- Robert Chappell
- Director of Photography
- Peter Donahue
- Editor
- Doug Abel
- Editor
- Chyld King
- Editor
- Karen Schmeer
- Producer
- Julie Ahlberg