The latest of Errol Morris's meetings with remarkable men finds the acclaimed filmmaker's patented "Interrotron" camera contraption pointed at former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, a man who'd become so closely identified with the conflict in Vietnam that the whole debacle became known as "McNamara's War." With his thinning hair still slicked back into his trademark coif, the 85-year-old McNamara first offers a quick summation of his formative years — a poor childhood in San Francisco, a good education at Berkeley and the Harvard Business School, a tour of duty as a captain in the air force during WWII — then his 14-year stint at General Motors that culmina...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
95 mins