Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
- vietnam
- politics
- biography
- historical figure
- historical society
- secretary of defense
- anti war protest
- cuban missile crisis
- cabinet position
- armed forces
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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)
- Curtis LeMay — 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 — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Directed
- Errol Morris
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 306 ratings
- Studio
- SenArt Films, RadicalMedia, Sony Pictures Classics
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