AMP Treatise

I just finished watching this movie for probably the 5th time (thank you Encore for helping me procrastinate a room cleaning) and by now, I've told several people about it, but none of them have watched it yet, so I believe my description is lacking. In essence, its a documentary about and featuring Robert S. McNamara, the 7 year Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson. Goes from WWII to Cuban Missile Crisis to Vietnam and the various difficult lessons he learned about the nature and conduct of modern war. Ok, so now that I've totally disinterested you, as I'm sure I have to everyone I've recommended it to, I'll let a professional do the talking:

The Fog of War, the movie that finally won Errol Morris the best documentary Oscar, is a spellbinder. Morris interviews Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and finds a uniquely unsettling viewpoint on much of 20th-century American history. Employing a ton of archival material, including LBJ's fascinating taped conversations from the Oval Office, Morris probes the reasons behind the U.S. commitment to the Vietnam War--and finds a depressingly inconsistent policy. McNamara himself emerges as--well, not exactly apologetic, but clearly haunted by the what-ifs of Vietnam. He also mulls the bombing of Japan in World War II and the Cuban Missile Crisis, raising more questions than he answers. The Fog of War has the usual inexorable Morris momentum, aided by an uneasy Philip Glass score. This movie provides a glimpse inside government. It also encourages skepticism about same.