The Unknown Known 2013

Master documentarian Morris continues to explore the mind of war that he so brilliantly interrogated in the person of Robert McNamara in the Oscar-winning Fog of War. Here, his subject is Donald Rumsfeld, whose career soared from Nixon to Reagan and the Bushes, explaining for history his engagement with wars, seducing the listener if not the camera or Morris himself. A masterful but disturbing document in a world reshaped by Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, seen through the man who sold those wars.