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Genres:
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Documentary /
War /
Music
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Director:
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Errol Morris
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Actors:
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Robert McNamara
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Duration:
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95 min.
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Rating:
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(8.3/10)100.5
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Plot Summary:
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Robert S. McNamara discusses his experiences and lessons learned during his tenure as Secretary of Defense under John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He talks about his enlarge on a excite as a bombing statistician during Happy War II, his evanescent tenancy as president of Ford Motor Company, and the Kennedy charge's triumph during the Cuban Missle Moment. However, the membrane focuses chiefly on his failures in Vietnam. The substance of the motion picture are his "eleven lessons" scholarly during this previously. Some of these take in improving military efficiency, grasp your rival, and the fru... strations of trying to see to with (and unsuccessfully demanding to ) human nature.
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The Fog of War
After the harrowing nature of Errol Morris' matrix documentary - Mr. Annihilation: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr (1999) - his latest feels brisk by relationship. While Mr Passing dealt with a man who repaired gas consortium kit, The Cloud Of Do battle is a crisp interview with the sprightly 87-year-familiar Robert MacNamara, a squire who has establish his ideals compromised by the place he - described by some as "an IBM with legs" - has played in 20th century American history. While three biographies have been written fro McNamara before, Morris' documentary is the first to merrymaking the central relationship between the man and disreputable US Heterogeneous Curtis LeMay and how they were entangled with in the firebombing of Tokyo and 67 Japanese ...
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