The Unknown Known (Blu-ray) PG-13

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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 1, 2014
  • Originally Released: 2013
  • Label: Radius

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Certified Fresh82%

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User Ratings: 5,290
[A] disconnect between content and intent characterizes the entirety of his film. Full Review
WORLD
Apr 10, 2018
Rating: 3/4 -- [A] scary inquiry. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Apr 18, 2014
Rating: 3/4 -- By now the director's technique is so savvy, so confident in its visual layering and atmospheric assurance, even a dodgy, cagey camera subject such as Rumsfeld becomes movieworthy. Full Review
Chicago Tribune
Apr 17, 2014
The Unknown Known is a worthy addition to Morris's body of work, an epic search that demonstrates the limits of language, the ease of sidestepping truth. Full Review
New York Magazine/Vulture
Apr 4, 2014
Rating: 8/10 -- Delights in exploring sophistry and fine distinctions of language. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Nov 28, 2014
As a history lesson in digest form, it's eminently valuable for cracking Rumsfeld's cheshire grin without employing unsound interrogation methods. Full Review
Cinema Scope
Oct 10, 2017
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Frustrating and fascinating. Full Review
Tiny Mix Tapes
Oct 11, 2015

Product Description:

In THE UNKNOWN KNOWN, award-winning documentarian Errol Morris turns his camera on the career of Donald Rumsfeld, who served in numerous executive positions throughout his career in Washington, D.C., but most famously as Secretary of Defense in the first decade of the 21st century. During his tenure at that job, he helped orchestrate the Iraq War, and became a controversial figure for many of the things that transpired under his watch. Morris uses his typical stylized approach -- including first-hand interviews with Rumsfeld himself -- and a wealth of archival footage to delineate how his subject's public statements and private actions did not always reconcile. THE UNKNOWN KNOWN screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

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