Unknown Known, The

Legendary filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog Of War, The Thin Blue Line), conducts this one-on-one inquest of the life, career and philosophy of ex-US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, across his tenure under four Republican presidents, to his role in the controversial invasion of Iraq. Rumsfeld is equal parts charismatic, cagey, frank, ridiculous and terrifying, a man to whom words had ultimate importance, transcribing thousands of memos (which he fondly called ‘snowflakes’) to his Pentagon colleagues and sometimes himself. In terror of making or admitting mistakes, Rumsfeld dodges Morris’s every challenge, pausing only to marvel at the tide of violence in his wake: ‘Everything feels amazing in retrospect’. Watching The Unknown Known, is to be in the hands of a master-filmmaker, as Morris delivers an incisive portrait of a man and of modern history itself; a history comprised of events too big for even the men responsible for them to comprehend.