The Fog of War

2003 · directed by Errol Morris

Rating
84/100
Hit
yes

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.

The Fog of War (2003), directed by Errol Morris, rates 84/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

  • Robert McNamara
  • Errol Morris
  • Fidel Castro
  • Barry Goldwater
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Curtis LeMay
  • Richard Nixon
  • Harry Reasoner
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

Crew

  • Peter Donahue — Director of Photography
  • Robert Chappell — Director of Photography
  • Chyld King — Editor
  • Doug Abel — Editor
  • Karen Schmeer — Editor
  • Philip Glass — Original Music Composer

More from Errol Morris

  1. The Thin Blue Line (1988) — 83/100 · hit
  2. Vernon, Florida (1981) — 81/100 · hit
  3. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) — 79/100
  4. A Brief History of Time (1991) — 78/100
  5. Gates of Heaven (1978) — 78/100
  6. Tabloid (2011) — 73/100

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