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The Unknown Known
Documentary · 2013
Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The sides of The Unknown Known
- Donald Rumsfeld facing the camera
- His thousands of office memos
- The road to the Iraq war
The Unknown Known is good for you if…
- you want to hear a man who ran the Pentagon explain himself.
- you like Errol Morris questioning someone who plays with words.
- you're fine ending a film without a clear answer about the man.
The Unknown Known is bad for you if…
- you need more than one man talking for an hour and a half.
- you'd rather not revisit the Iraq war through the man who planned it.
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