Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld

Birthday: 1932-07-09

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography: Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932 - June 29, 2021) was an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1962-1969), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969-1970), Counsellor to the President (1969-1973), the United States Permanent Representative to NATO (1973-1974), and White House Chief of Staff (1974-1975). 

Movies

Control Room
Control Room

A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy...

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Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...

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WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception

There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the la...

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Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties
Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties

A documentary that investigates the ways in which the civil liberties of American citizens and immig...

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Laissez-faire
Laissez-faire

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so pr...

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Blood and Oil
Blood and Oil

The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East is often disregarded...

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...So Goes the Nation
...So Goes the Nation

A look at the role of the Buckeye State in the 2004 Presidential Election....

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Blowin' In The Wind
Blowin' In The Wind

Blowin' in the Wind examines the secret treaty that allows the US military to train and test its wea...

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The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing
The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing

News documentary that focuses on what takes place at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, with anchor Tom Broka...

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The Unknown Known
The Unknown Known

Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. ...

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Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

An examination of the prisoner abuse scandal involving U.S. soldiers and detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghr...

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Dark Side of the Moon
Dark Side of the Moon

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...

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9/11: The Day That Changed the World
9/11: The Day That Changed the World

Ten years later, the events of September 11, 2001, still resonate - especially for the people who we...

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The Draft
The Draft

Historians, veterans, politicians, and anti-war leaders discuss the history of the military draft in...

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15 Septembers Later
15 Septembers Later

Featuring interviews with key political figures including President George W Bush, Vice President Di...

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LSD a Go Go
LSD a Go Go

An army officer jumped to his death from an apartment on the tenth floor in Manhattan early in the m...

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Top Priority: The Terror Within
Top Priority: The Terror Within

Federal officer with the Department of Homeland Security discovers a national security breach relate...

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Above Majestic
Above Majestic

A look at the origins, history and conspiracies behind the "Majestic 12", a clandestine group of mil...

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Torture: The Guantanamo Guidebook
Torture: The Guantanamo Guidebook

British Channel 4 engaged the Team Delta Cadre to recreate the Guantanamo Bay interrogation experien...

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Shadow World
Shadow World

A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the ...

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Leading to War
Leading to War

Leading to War is a 2008 American documentary film composed entirely of archival news footage of the...

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Tails You Win: The Science of Chance
Tails You Win: The Science of Chance

Professor David Spiegelhalter tries to pin down what chance truly is and how it works in the real wo...

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The Words That Built America
The Words That Built America

In recognition of the 4th of July, several celebrities and politicians of differing ideologies join ...

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The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby

A personal exploration into the life of America's controversial former CIA Director told through the...

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JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick

The real reasons and orchestrators behind Hitler, to an incredible theory of the JFK assassination, ...

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The World According to Dick Cheney
The World According to Dick Cheney

How did a college dropout who was arrested for a DUI twice in the same year become the single-most-p...

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