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

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2011
1h 44m
English
Drama, Documentary, History
A personal exploration into the life of America's controversial former CIA Director told through the eyes of his wife and filmmaker son, Carl. Through extraordinary events in twentieth century history, this consummate soldier/spy stood at the center of the Agency's most clandestine activities and operations. The film reveals the 'cover life' of this CIA operative, who followed orders and took on the dirtiest assignments until the Nixon Administration ordered him to 'stonewall' Congress about the CIA's past abuses, but he refused. This film reveals why, for the first time, he could not obey.
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William Colby
Self (archive footage)
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Self - Former National Security Adv...
George H W Bush
Self (archive footage)
John F Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Robert F Kennedy
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger
Self (archive footage)
Henry Cabot Lodge
Self (archive footage)
Robert McNamara
Self - Secretary of Defense (voice)...
Pope Pius XII
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Nelson Rockefeller
Self (archive footage)
Dean Rusk
Self - Secretary of State (voice) (...
Bella Abzug
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Directed By: Carl Colby

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drqshadow says...
5 years ago
A career retrospective of former CIA director William Colby, who stepped in to bite the bullet when congress smelled blood following Watergate and the Vietnam War. Left with nothing more than photos and questions in the wake of his father's mysterious disappearance on an early-morning canoe ride, Colby's filmmaker son doesn't seem to have any alternative but to seek his answers in the past. The result is a startlingly open, sweeping glimpse of the CIA's involvement in Cold War politics and the Kennedy / Nixon regimes. At times it's very dry, but the narrative is constantly loaded with historical nuggets from the men who lived it - like the kind of programming we could expect from the History Channel before it turned into whatever it is now. It's strange that, as the scale increases, Colby almost becomes an afterthought in his own story, but the film certainly tells a better story because of it. Bittersweet, insightful and informative, if too reliant on talking heads and Ken Burns photo zooms.
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gmillerd says...
9 years ago
This is a very engaging story about a fascinating person, some sorted and complex histories of america and that person.
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