Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 26, 2003
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Sony Pictures Classics,RadicalMedia,SenArt Films
- Cast
- Franklin D. Roosevelt,Robert McNamara,Errol Morris,Curtis LeMay,Woodrow Wilson,Barry Goldwater,John F. Kennedy,Fidel Castro,Harry Reasoner,Richard Nixonand 1 more
- Director
- Errol Morris
- Producer
- Jack Lechner,Robert May,Frank Scherma,John Sloss,Errol Morris,Michael Williams,Julie Ahlberg,Jon Kamen
- Cinematography
- Peter Donahue,Robert Chappell
- Music
- Philip Glass
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $5,038,841
- IMDb
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