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The Unknown Known

Why is this man smiling?

Rating 6.8 / 10Release August 29, 2013Runtime 102 min

Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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