The Fog of War (2003)
ThumbScore
👍 78%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 92%
(RT: 96%, MC: 87) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Robert McNamara as Self
Errol Morris as Self (uncredited)
Fidel Castro as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Barry Goldwater as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nikita Khrushchev as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Curtis LeMay as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Is The Fog of War good?
Most people think so. 78% audience score, estimated from 308 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 92%.
Overview
Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. Augmented by archival footage and cabinet conversation recordings, Errol Morris gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history. Wikipedia ↗
