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The Unknown Known

film by Morris [2013]

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  • Errol Morris
    In Errol Morris

    The Unknown Known (2013) consisted of a series of interviews with former U.S. secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld regarding his political past, particularly his role in the Iraq War. In The B-Side (2016) Morris explored the life of portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman. American Dharma (2018)…

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  • Donald Rumsfeld
    In Donald Rumsfeld

    …of the Errol Morris documentary The Unknown Known (2013). The film consisted of a series of interviews about his life and his government service. In early 2021 he and other former secretaries of defense wrote a letter in which they stated that U.S. armed forces should not be used to…

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