The Fog of War
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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Cast
11 people
Robert McNamara
Self
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Errol Morris
Self (uncredited)
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First Person
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Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Barry Goldwater
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Known for
Imagine: John Lennon
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Velikoye proshchaniye
Curtis LeMay
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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It Felt Like a Kiss
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Harry Reasoner
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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The Hippie Temptation
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Okay for Sound
Woodrow Wilson
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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President Wilson arrives in New York to lead fourth Liberty Loan parade [1918]
Errol Morris Director · Philip Glass Composer Robert Chappell Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $5M · United States release December 9, 2003 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$5,038,841
Production
SenArt Films
Production
RadicalMedia
Production
Sony Pictures Classics
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
The McNamara Project
Working title
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
France · May 21, 2003
Premiere · Cannes
United States · December 9, 2003
Theatrical
United States · November 14, 2023
Physical · Blu-ray
Brazil
February 20, 2004 · Theatrical
July 29, 2004 · Physical · DVD
Czechia
October 26, 2003 · Limited theatrical
Hungary
August 17, 2004 · Physical
Ireland
February 18, 2004 · Limited theatrical
Japan
September 11, 2004 · Theatrical
Netherlands
April 8, 2004 · Theatrical
March 10, 2005 · Physical · DVD
April 25, 2011 · TV · RTL 7
Poland
October 9, 2004 · Limited theatrical
Sweden
October 26, 2003 · Limited theatrical
Switzerland
September 16, 2004 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
April 2, 2004 · Theatrical
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