Unknown Known

Nominee
Golden Lion
Venice Film Festival
A masterwork of political epistemology and dialectical jujitsu.
-- Richard Brody, New Yorker

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The Unknown Known

In THE UNKNOWN KNOWN, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (The Fog of War) offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, one of the key architects of the Iraq War, and a larger-than-life character who provoked equal levels of fury and adulation from the American public. Rather than conducting a conventional interview, Morris has Rumsfeld perform and expound on his “snowflakes,” tens of thousands of memos (many never previously published) he composed as a congressman and as an advisor to four different presidents, twice as Secretary of Defense. These memos provide a window onto history—not history as it actually happened, but history as Rumsfeld wants us to see it. Morris makes plain that Rumsfeld’s “snowflakes”—whether intended to elucidate, rationalize, obfuscate, or control history—are contradicted by the facts.
PG-13
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
102
Language
English
Director
Errol Morris
Cast
Donald Rumsfeld
Awards:
Nominee, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Scott Foundas, Variety

Errol Morris goes mano-a-mano with former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and emerges with something of a draw in “The Unknown Known,” a coolly hypnotic conceptual sequel to Morris’ Oscar-winning Robert McNamara study, “The Fog of War,” by way of 2008’s Abu Ghraib docu “Standard Operating ...

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