A Brief History of Errol Morris. His landmark televison interview/documentary series called "
First Person" (ex.
Rick Rosner : One in a Million Trillion [
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7], an interview with a man who went back to high school three times just to try to get it right;
Denny Fitch : Leaving the Earth [
2,
3,
4,
5,
6], where a pilot tells a harrowing tale of his passenger plane crash; and
Andrew Cappocia : Mr. Debt [
2 ,
3], an interview with a passionate man about credit card reform.) ... see also:
Fog of War [
excerpt], an award winning full-length feature about Robert McNamara, US Director of Defense during the Viet Nam War; as well as some very
compelling commercials [
2,
3,
4,
5] that you may remember, and
an interview with the man himself.
(Previously)
posted by Dave Faris
on Jul 2, 2007 -
30 comments
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why."
In
The Fog of War, a revelatory new documentary about his life and times, a disquieted
Robert McNamara implores us to understand why he did the things he did as an Air Force lieutenant colonel who helped
plan the
firebombing of Japanese cities in
World War II, and, later, as a secretary of defense and pivotal decision-maker during
Vietnam, which some Americans came to call
"McNamara's War."
One of the movie's most powerful passages covers McNamara's little-known service in World War II, when he was attached to Gen.
Curtis LeMay's 21st Bomber Command stationed on the Pacific island of Guam.
LeMay's B-29s showered 67 Japanese cities with incendiary bombs in 1945, softening up the country for the two
atomic blasts to come. McNamara was a senior planning officer. Story by
"Killing Fields"' Sydney Schanberg in the
American Prospect
(more inside)
posted by matteo
on Nov 12, 2003 -
83 comments
