Fog of War

[svendejong]

Not sure if i'm putting this in the right part of the forum and if it even belongs here but anyways:

Has anyone seen the documentary for of war and if yes what are your thought about it??

I thought it interesting to see how a f*ckup in communication between worldleaders has the potential to screw things very seriously up.

[Eddy]

Is it the documentary about Robert McNamara ?

[gaijinsamurai]

I saw it a few months ago. Excellent documentary.

[Name Taken]

Very good documentary, I watched it and wrote a paper about it for my Vietnam War class in college.

I think it's very well done, and might help those who dismiss MacNamara as a micro-manager to see that he really had his eye on the bigger picture and the very real threat of nuclear war.

The dozen or so pieces of advice he gives are very interesting, too.

[StukaJr]

I've watched it twice - have learned a lot of new information about both the WWII and the Vietnam and it's really humbling just to take it all in. Honest, no sugarcoating and he does really put the viewer into the perspective of the events.

There is some very good account of events as they unfolded and miscommunications that have been long disguising the truth of the events for some decades now. With information on the past, the movie shines a lot of insight on the current way of thinking and forming opinions - it's really more of an eye openner than a forced opinion.

I highly recomend.

[Icarus1]

Just bought it on amazon.de

Thanks for the infos

[svendejong]

for ppl from the netherlands, its for sale for 12 euros at freerecordshop.

Does anyone know of more comparable political/military themed documentaries??

Not 'liberal' ones that bash the rightwing , or vice versa.
But Documentaries that trancend this.

[RFSU]

yep great docco. it was interesting to hear the tapped recording between MacNamara and LBJ. From the discussions it would seem MacNamara was almost begging for a withdrawel.

[nullterm]

Fog of War was excellent. Well worth it. McNamara offered some great perspective on things.

I also recently saw The Trials of Henry Kissinger. It's pretty biased, but touches on similar historical period. Very conspiracy theory, military industrial complex-ish. Didn't find it anywhere as good as Fog of War.

[Andreas]

It was excellent

[svendejong]

today someone gave me the bbc docu 'why we fight'

It had raving reviews but seems what many ppl here would call very ' liberal'
and althow i considder myself pretty liberal i dont like overly biassed documantaries. I dont like the feeling of having political agendas shoved down my throath.
I also got 50 years of war but gotta watch that also.
Will share my thoughts when i watched them..


P,S, has anyone seen these docus yet??

[Mastermind]

It paints RS McNamara as a saint. It is, in my opinion, a re-write of history designed to put RSM in a new light. Yes, it did have a few revelations and it gave an interesting insight to the mind of a megalomaniac (McNamara)....if anything, it presents a faithful picture of how to muddy the waters of history...IMVHO! MM