One of New Hollywood's most successful wunderkinder in the early '70s, William Friedkin helmed some of that era's most noteworthy films including To Live and Die in L.A., the still-controversial Cruising, and two back-to-back, Oscar-winning smashes, The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973).
Directed by Errol Morris
Biography, Military & War, Politics & Government - Rated PG13 - 96 Minutes - 2013
Reprising the format used with Robert McNamara in The Fog of War, Errol Morris sits down Donald Rumsfeld, most recently seen as George W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, for a hard conversation about his career. The title comes what emerges as a habit of Rumsfeld's, which is cloaking his intentions behind linguistic riddles and verbal gymnastics, which are played out in the multitude of his dictated memos that create the structure of the documentary. From the Iraq War and pursuit of Saddam Hussein to being present at one of Gerald Ford's assassination attempts to being in the Pentagon on 9/11 to the scandal at Abu Ghraib, Morris hones in on many key moments of the divisive man's career.