Anchor Bay Entertainment will release director Errol Morris'
The Unknown Known on Blu-ray this summer. The critically acclaimed account of the life and political career of former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, arrives on July 1st.
Synopsis: Director Errol Morris, winner of the Academy Award, Best Documentary Feature for
The Fog of War, offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, the larger-than-life figure who served as United States Secretary of Defense and as the principal architect of the Iraq War. In this unique cat-and-mouse game of argument and counterargument, evasion and evidence, Morris takes viewers where few have ever been: beyond the web of words into the unfamiliar terrain of Rumsfeld's mind.
The Unknown Known presents history from the inside out, showing how the ideas, fears, and certainties of one man, written out on paper, transformed America, changed the course of history and led to war.
Premiering at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival,
The Unknown Known was an official selection of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and 70th Venice International Film Festival. RADiUS-TWC went on to release the film theatrically on April 2nd to high praise. In his review for The New Yorker, Richard Brody asserts that the documentary is "a masterwork of political epistemology and dialectical jujitsu." Jon Frosch of The Atlantic declares
The Unknown Known "the story of American power pursued and misused."
Tech specs have yet to be revealed. Special features include:
- Audio Commentary with Director Errol Morris
- A Conversation with Errol Morris
- Third Annual Report of the Secretaries of Defense (1989)
- Four-part Op-ed: "The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld," by Morris