The Unknown Known

The Unknown Known

Why is this man smiling?

Directed by Errol Morris

2013102 min6.8 / 10

A probing documentary portrait of Donald Rumsfeld that uses his own words and evasions to interrogate power, accountability, and the gap between intention and consequence.

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.

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