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The Unknown Known is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Errol Morris released in USA on 29 august 2013 with Errol Morris

The Unknown Known (2013)

The Unknown Known
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Released in USA 29 august 2013
Length 1h36
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Documentary,    Historical
Rating69% 3.4971353.4971353.4971353.4971353.497135

The Unknown Known (also known as The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld) is a 2013 American documentary film about the life of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, directed by Academy Award winning documentarian and filmmaker Errol Morris. The film is a summary of 33 hours of interviews that Morris conducted with Rumsfeld over eleven separate sessions during visits to Boston, Massachusetts. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2013. The film was screened in the main competition section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.

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The major portion of the film is spent addressing excerpts from the millions of memos, nicknamed 'Yellow Perils' by his first Pentagon staff and 'Snowflakes' by the second, that Rumsfeld wrote during his time as a congressman and advisor to four different presidents, twice as United States Secretary of Defense. It also focuses on a response Rumsfeld gave to a question at a U.S. Department of Defense news briefing on February 12, 2002 about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. The content of the memos are varied, covering everything from the aftermath of Watergate, to the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal, to the definition of the word “terrorism”. Morris returns to the motif of snowflakes swirling within a snow globe throughout the documentary as he discusses the context of the memos with Rumsfeld, notes to which the Defense Secretary gave him limited access while preparing the film, and which Rumsfeld agrees to read aloud on camera.

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Errol Morris

(Self - Interviewer (voice))
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