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Feb 04, 2024andreajesse rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A very important film from genius director Errol Morris. Morris uses an interrotron camera while interviewing his subjects to create real intimacy. The person being interviewed for the entire length of the film is Robert McNamara who…
Nov 19, 2022yesbyedith rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Interesting.
Oct 31, 2020EvanSchoenfeld rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Below comments didn’t catch the revelation that McNamara was a proponent of withdrawal from Vietnam. His interview downplays Johnson’s responsibility, but at the core of the documentary, taped White House telephone conversations make this…
Aug 05, 2020The_Most_Casual_Observer rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
🚗 What she said! But, let's not let McNamara take all the credit for seat belts. They were the result of that old devil government regulation, y'know, along with safety glass windshields. The auto companies resisted, because they thought…
Jun 24, 2016Janice21383 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
One of the best pictures of its year, or of any year. Robert McNamara was both blessed and cursed by energy, idealism, and one of the rarest of all human gifts, a completely logical mind. His plan for the seat belt saved uncounted…
Jun 24, 2016uzebdrumz rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
It is fascinating that people get emotional about the death of one person or certain people, yet are able to discuss the death of thousands quite forensically. War seems to be part of human nature, but we have fashioned technology that…
Aug 31, 2015StarGladiator rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Although this movie does impute some important facts, overall I would classify it as a reframing or redirecting of the truth - - in following the money, the Republicon appointee of President Kennedy acted on behalf of the super-rich and…
Apr 08, 2014akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Originally released as a motion picture documentary in 2003, this 107-minute interview with McNamara will give you an astonishing, chilling and sometuimes horrifying insights into the bombing of Tokyo, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the…
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Apr 25, 2013dhblaine rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
If you watch this documentary, it is important for you to get past your personal feelings about McNamara and Johnson. If you can do that, this movie present some profoundly important ideas on a subject that you will find nowhere else. …
Apr 19, 2013
The galling outcome of this man's influence on and then instigation of a policy of killing people ( the Vietnamese deaths totalled nearly two million) while disregarding the vast intelligence and background of many firstclass military and…
May 12, 2012tauseef365 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Although much vilified through the 60s and 70s, McNamara emerges as a complex and fascinating character and a product of his time. This film does a great job of exposing the evils, horrors and excesses of war, and is a cautionary tale for…
May 11, 2012DanieLinares rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Shameful, not very interesting. At least he recognized part of his mistakes in WWII, but he was not at the front. He tries to condone his participation in Vietnam were more than 50K USA soldiers died. Then he becomes president of the…
Mar 02, 2012ErnestKellen rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I hate to see this accomplice to mass murder make a penny off this film. However it is revealing of the mindset at the time and is probably worth 4 stars for anyone interested in the period. Too bad he didn't offer any kind of apology for…
Mar 02, 2012
4 of 5 stars. See it to believe it. Candid, experienced words of wisdom about the Vietnam war, for all wars.
Mar 12, 2011davidehinz rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
These are the Issues of our contemporary History. Anyone who is an adult will understand what's going on. And the unherald people who maintain peace in our world.
Apr 18, 2010edul rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a very interesting documentary that takes the watcher through the second half of the 20th century in the USA and shows the watcher the effect that one man had on world history.