OO.ready(function() { OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer', 'gwdWEwZTpUw-8OjCw9iUS5KoJp7WxxIA'); });Please enable Javascript to watch this videoIn The Unknown Known, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, the larger-than-life figure who served as George W. Bush’s secretary of defense and was the principal architect of the Iraq War.
Morris has Rumsfeld perform and explain his “snowflakes," the enormous archive of memos he wrote across almost 50 years in Congress, the White House, in business, and twice at the Pentagon. The memos provide a window into history—not as it actually happened, but as Rumsfeld wants us to see it.
By focusing on the “snowflakes,” with their conundrums and their contradictions, Morris takes us where few have ever been—beyond the web of words into the unfamiliar terrain of Rumsfeld’s mind. The Unknown Known presents history from the inside out. It shows how the ideas, fears, and certainties of one man, written out on paper, transformed America, changed the course of history, and led to war.More with Errol Morris:Werner Herzog and Errol Morris Talk About 'The Act of Killing'Motherboard Meets Errol Morris
Morris has Rumsfeld perform and explain his “snowflakes," the enormous archive of memos he wrote across almost 50 years in Congress, the White House, in business, and twice at the Pentagon. The memos provide a window into history—not as it actually happened, but as Rumsfeld wants us to see it.
By focusing on the “snowflakes,” with their conundrums and their contradictions, Morris takes us where few have ever been—beyond the web of words into the unfamiliar terrain of Rumsfeld’s mind. The Unknown Known presents history from the inside out. It shows how the ideas, fears, and certainties of one man, written out on paper, transformed America, changed the course of history, and led to war.More with Errol Morris:Werner Herzog and Errol Morris Talk About 'The Act of Killing'Motherboard Meets Errol Morris