Watch The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) Online

The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)Former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara is the sole focus of documentarian Errol Morris' The Fog of War, a film that not only analyzes McNamara's controversial decisions during the first half of the Vietnam War, but also his childhood upbringing, his education at Berkeley and Harvard, his involvement in World War II, and his later years as president of the World Bank. Culling footage from almost 20 hours of interviews with the Secretary, Morris details key moments from McNamara's career, including the 1945 bombing of Tokyo, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and President Kennedy's suggestions to the Secretary that the U.S.

remove itself from Vietnam. Throughout the film, the 85-year-old McNamara expounds his philosophies on international conflict, and shows regret and pride in equal measure for, respectively, his mistakes and accomplishments. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

PG-13, 1 hr. 35 min.
Documentary, Special Interest
Directed By: Errol Morris
In Theaters: Dec 19, 2003 Limited

8.3

The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)

Watch Rivers and Tides, (Fluß der Zeit) (2003) Online

Rivers and Tides, (Fluß der Zeit) (2003)portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.

Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.
Musical & Performing Arts, Documentary
Directed By: Thomas Riedelsheimer
In Theaters: Mar 7, 2002 Wide

7.7

Rivers and Tides, (Fluß der Zeit) (2003))

Watch Finding Nemo (2003) Online

Finding Nemo (2003)In this stunning underwater adventure, with memorable characters, humor and heartfelt emotion, Finding Nemo follows the comedic and momentous journey of an overly protective clownfish named Marlin (voice by Albert Brooks) and his son Nemo (voice by Alexander Gould) -- who become separated in the Great Barrier Reef when Nemo is unexpectedly taken far from his ocean home and dumped into a fish tank in a dentist's office.

Buoyed by the companionship of Dory (voice by Ellen DeGeneres), a friendly-but-forgetful Pacific regal blue tang, Marlin embarks on a dangerous trek and finds himself the unlikely hero of an epic effort to rescue his son -- who hatches a few daring plans of his own to return safely home. -- (C) Official Site

G, 1 hr. 40 min.
Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy
Directed By: Andrew Stanton , Lee Unkrich
Written By: Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds
In Theaters: May 30, 2003 Wide

8.1

Finding Nemo (2003)

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Sideways (2004)Directed by Alexander Payne, Sideways follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), who is distressed about his lack of success as a novelist, and Jack (Thomas Haden Church), an equally unsuccessful actor with a rapidly approaching wedding.

In a last-ditch effort to sow their wild oats, Jack and Miles take off on a final road trip to California's wine country the week prior to Jack's wedding. Both men have goals for the vacation -- Miles wants to turn Jack on to the art of wine tasting, while Jack is concerned with exploiting his last days as a bachelor -- but when the two men come across two fascinating women (Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh), the duo is forced to examine their morality, and if maturity isn't such a depressing prospect -- at least, for one of them. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

R, 2 hr. 3 min.
Drama, Romance, Comedy
Directed By: Alexander Payne
Written By: Jim Taylor, Alexander Payne
In Theaters: Sep 13, 2004 Wide

7.6

Sideways (2004)

Watch Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004) Online

Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)Directed by Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller, Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train offers a retrospective on the life and times of Howard Zinn. Activist, best-selling author, and historian, Zinn is considered the catalyst for some of the most notable progressive movements of the past 60 years.

Noam Chomsky, who claims that Zinn "changed the consciousness of a generation," is featured in several interviews, along with Marian Wright Edelman, Alice Walker, Tom Hayden, Daniel Ellsberg, and Zinn himself. The documentary also features rare archival footage. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Unrated, 1 hr. 18 min.
Documentary, Special Interest
Directed By: Deb Ellis , Denis Mueller
In Theaters: Jul 23, 2004 Wide

7.4

Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)

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The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2004)In 1955, Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African-American from Chicago who traveled to Money, MS, to visit his relatives. Till came home several months later in a box; Till had supposedly whistled at a white woman, and 14 white men, angered by the young man's perceived arrogance, beat him senseless, shot him to death, and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighing it down with an engine from a cotton gin. Emmett's mother, Mamie Till, was a fearless woman determined to see that justice was done (she had an open casket at Emmett's funeral and allowed Jet magazine to publish a photo of his badly mutilated body so others could see the full extent of the crime), but convicting white men on charges of lynching a black teenager in the Deep South in the 1950s was all but impossible, and the two charged with Emmett's death, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were found not guilty by a jury who deliberated for so short a period they stopped for a cold drink to stretch the wait to an hour. Only a few months later, Bryant and Milam admitted they had committed the crime to a reporter from Look magazine, knowing they were protected from further prosecution under double jeopardy statutes.

The other 12 men involved in the crime were not charged. Almost 50 years later, filmmaker Keith Beauchamp traveled to Mississippi to investigate the surviving characters in this heinous crime, and The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till combines newsreel footage shot during the investigation of the murder in 1955 with present-day interviews, including Till's cousins, who watched helplessly as he was dragged away by an angry mob; Till's uncle, who identified the guilty men in court; friends and co-workers of the men who committed the crimes (five of whom were still alive when the film was completed), and Mamie Till. In 2005, in part because of evidence uncovered by the filmmakers, the Emmett Till case was reopened in Mississippi. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

PG-13, 1 hr. 10 min.
Documentary, Special Interest
Directed By: Keith Beauchamp
In Theaters: Oct 14, 2005 Limited

7.1

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2004)

Watch Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2004) Online

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2004)Alex Gibney, who wrote and produced Eugene Jarecki's The Trials of Henry Kissinger, examines the rise and fall of an infamous corporate juggernaut in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which he wrote and directed. The film, based on the book by Fortune Magazine reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, opens with a reenactment of the suicide of Enron executive Cliff Baxter, then travels back in time, describing Enron chairman Kenneth Lay's humble beginnings as the son of a preacher, his ascent in the corporate world as an "apostle of deregulation," his fortuitous friendship with the Bush family, and the development of his business strategies in natural gas futures. The film points out that the culture of financial malfeasance at Enron was evident as far back as 1987, when Lay apparently encouraged the outrageous risk taking and profit skimming of two oil traders in Enron's Valhalla office because they were bringing a lot of money into the company. But it wasn't until eventual CEO Jeff Skilling arrived at Enron that the company's "aggressive accounting" philosophy truly took hold.

The Smartest Guys in the Room explores the lengths to which the company went in order to appear incredibly profitable. Their win-at-all-costs strategy included suborning financial analysts with huge contracts for their firms, hiding debts by essentially having the company loan money to itself, and using California's deregulation of the electricity market to manipulate the state's energy supply. Gibney's film reveals how Lay, Skilling, and other execs managed to keep their riches, while thousands of lower-level employees saw their loyalty repaid with the loss of their jobs and their retirement funds. The filmmaker posits the Enron scandal not as an anomaly, but as a natural outgrowth of free-market capitalism. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi

R, 1 hr. 50 min.
Documentary, Special Interest
Directed By: Alex Gibney
Written By: Peter Elkind, Alex Gibney, Bethany McLean
In Theaters: Apr 29, 2005 Limited

7.7

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2004)