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In 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
* Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Fog of War ( 2004 )
* Best Documentary of the Year awards for The Fog of War ( 2003 ): the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics, and the Washington D. C. Area Film Critics.
Former U. S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara refers equivocally to the statement that " war is cruelty and you cannot refine it " in both the book Wilson's Ghost and in his interview for the film The Fog of War.
In the 2003 documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara admitted that the Aug 4 attack never happened.
* The Fog of War
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 Errol Morris documentary consisting mostly of interviews with Robert McNamara and archival footage.
* The Fog of War
In the movie " The Fog of War ", then US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara concedes the attack did not happen, though he says that he and President Johnson believed it did so at the time.
In turn-based strategy games of the Advance Wars, Field Commander and Fire Emblem series, " Fog of War " literally refers to a fog which shrouds the most part of a map.
By extension, " Fog of War " is also used to describe the limited view distance of many first person shooters, where unlimited view is considered either bad for gameplay or, more often, because of technical limitations, in that a Fog of War allows for the rendering of a smaller part of the game area.
* The Fog of War and Friction in Current Conflicts: Fundamental Aspects of the Management of Modern Conflicts Article by LCdr ( Brazilian Navy ) Osvaldo P. Caninas.
Robert S. McNamara was appointed by President John F. Kennedy without any experience, a point that McNamara made clear in the 2003 documentary The Fog of War.
* The Fog of War
Filmmaker Errol Morris interviewed McNamara at length on camera in his documentary film, " The Fog of War.
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A common aspect of real-time strategy games is the player's partial limitation or complete inability to see beyond the visibility range of individual game objects that are under their ownership ( typically units and structures ), this concept is controlled by a mechanism known as the Fog of War.
Conditions such as Fog of War, rain, and snow affect the abilities of units to reveal the map and move around.

Fog and from
The first film from this contract was The Fog.
In addition, thousands of political prisoners throughout Germany — and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree — simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody.
After being released from the label The Doors played club venues including the London Fog and The Whisky a Go Go until they were signed to Elektra records by Jac Holzman.
Fog ( usually from water particles ) is created with an ultrasonic piezoelectric nebulizer.
Carpenter followed up the success of Halloween with The Fog ( 1980 ), a ghostly revenge tale ( co-written by Hill ) inspired by horror comics such as Tales from the Crypt and by The Crawling Eye, a 1958 movie about monsters hiding in clouds.
Carpenter immediately followed The Fog with the science-fiction adventure Escape from New York ( 1981 ), which quickly picked up large cult and mainstream audiences as well as critical acclaim.
Fog is distinguished from mist only by its density, as expressed in the resulting decrease in visibility: Fog reduces visibility to less than 1 km ( 5 / 8 statute mile ), whereas mist reduces visibility to no less than 1 km.
The Mask is removed from areas that have been explored, but those that are no longer within sight range of an allied unit or building are instead covered with the Fog of war ; though terrain remains visible, changes such as enemy troop movements and building construction are unseen.
Nielsen's works are sometimes referred to by FS numbers, from the 1965 catalogue compiled by Dan Fog and Torben Schousboe.
In addition to the permanent collection, the museum houses 26 works on long-term loan from the Gianni Mattioli Collection, including images of Italian futurism by artists including Boccioni ( Materia, Dynamism of a Cyclist ), Carrà ( Interventionist Demonstration ), Russolo ( The Solidity of Fog ) and Severini ( Blue Dancer ), as well as works by Balla, Depero, Rosai, Sironi and Soffici.
Fog and low overcast sometimes drifts in from San Francisco Bay during the summer and it can be breezy at times especially during the night.
Physical Air ,— or — Britannia recover'd from a Trance ;— also, the Patriotic Courage of Sherry Andrew ; & a peep thro ' the Fog ( 1803 ) by James Gillray, showing Sheridan as a Silenus-like and ragged Harlequin defending Henry Addington and Lord Hawkesbury on the Dover coast from the advancing French rowboats filled with French soldiers, led by Napoleon.
Nacht und Nebel, German for " Night and Fog " ( a direct reference to a " Tarnhelm " spell, from Wagner's Rheingold ) was a directive () of Adolf Hitler on 7 December 1941 that was originally intended to winnow out all political activists and resistance ' helpers ', “ anyone endangering German security ” ( die deutsche Sicherheit gefährden ) throughout Nazi Germany's occupied territories.
Up until the time of the " Night and Fog " decree, prisoners from Western Europe were handled by German soldiers in approximately the same way other countries did: according to national agreements and procedures such as the Geneva Convention.
The Night and Fog prisoners were mostly from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Norway.
The name Nebelung — apparently a portmanteau of the German word ( Nebel ) for Mist or Fog and a medieval Germanic saga, Nibelungenlied — is perhaps derived from the cat's distinctive silky blue-grey coat and from the breed's progenitors, who were named after the two major figures in the Nibelungenlied, the German warrior Siegfried and the Icelandic queen Brunhilde.
While in production, the filmmakers learned that a long-time friend of Harryhausen, writer Ray Bradbury, had sold a short story called " The Beast from 20, 000 Fathoms " ( retitled " The Fog Horn ") to The Saturday Evening Post, about a dinosaur drawn to a lone lighthouse by its foghorn.
Atkins played Nick Castle in The Fog ( 1980 ) and Rehme in Escape from New York ( 1981 ).

Fog and Life
During their first European tour, J Mascis + The Fog participated in a John Peel session for BBC Radio 1, during which the band recorded a medley consisting of Teenage Fanclub's " Everything Flows ", Pavement's " Range Life ", and The Ruts ' " In a Rut ".
His documentary Life In Fog won numerous awards.
In his 1998 memoir, Light My Fire: My Life with the Doors, former keyboardist Ray Manzarek stated that Courson and a friend saw the band during their stint at the London Fog, a lesser-known nightclub, and that she was initially courted by Arthur Lee, of the California band Love, who brought The Doors to the attention of Elektra Records boss Jac Holzman.
* Joy Cave MS " A Gallant Gunner General: The Life and Times of Sir H H Tudor, KCB, CMG, together with an edited version of his 1914-1918 War Diary, ' The Fog of War ,' Imperial War Museum, Misc 175 Item 2658.

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