Robert McNamara: movies and TV shows

Robert McNamara has 20 credits in the archive: 13 films and 7 TV series, from 1963 to 2025. Highest rated: The Vietnam War (8.2/10).

Career timeline

1963 – 2025 · busiest year: 1983 (2 credits)

Year	Title	Role	Type	Rating	Age then
2025	Turning Point: The Vietnam War	Self (Archive Footage)	TV	7.2	109
2023	The Lies That Led America To War In Vietnam	Himself (archive footage)	Film	—	107
2019	Laboratory Greece	Self (archive footage)	Film	8.0	103
2018	Bobby Kennedy for President	Self (archive footage)	TV	7.8	102
2017	The Vietnam War	Self - Politician (archive footage)	TV	8.2	101
2011	The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby	Self - Secretary of Defense (voice) (archive footage)	Film	6.2	95
2009	The Most Dangerous Man in America	Self (archive footage)	Film	7.4	93
2005	U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy	Self	Film	—	89
2004	No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat	Self	Film	5.8	88
2003	The Fog of War	Self	Film	7.7	87
2002	Cold War Submarine Adventures: Cuban Missile Crisis - Secret Subs	Himself - Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense 1961-1968	Film	8.0	86
2002	USS Liberty: Dead in the Water	Self (archive footage)	Film	8.0	86
1988	American Experience	Self (archive footage)	TV	6.5	72
1983	Vietnam: A Television History	Self (archive footage)	TV	9.5	67
1983	Vietnam: A Television History	Self	TV	9.5	67
1979	The War at Home	Self (archive footage)	Film	7.4	63
1967	Death on a Rainy Day	Himself - 1960-1968 Secretary of Defense (archive footage) (uncredited)	Film	6.5	51
1965	Why Vietnam?	Self	Film	7.0	49
1963	World in Action		TV	7.0	47
	America's Lost Bombs: The True Story Of Broken Arrows	Self	Film	—	—