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James R. Schlesinger

Born 1929-02-15 New York City, New York, USA 6 films

James Rodney Schlesinger (February 15, 1929 – March 27, 2014) was an American economist and public servant who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior to becoming Secretary of Defense, he served as Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) from 1971 to 1973, and as CIA Director for a few months in 1973. He became America's first Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter in 19…

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Filmography

6 films

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

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

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

★ 6.3 2011

Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower poster

Though Henry Kissinger is often giving short statements to the media, he refuses detailed interview…

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Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower

★ 8.0 2008

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

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Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

★ 7.1 2007

U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy, An Oral History explores the origins of United States strategic nucl…

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U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy

★ 0.0 2005

In April 1975 -- despite a ceasefire agreement -- the North Vietnamese communists took Saigon and t…

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The Fall of Saigon

★ 6.5 1995

Dramatization of a devastating nuclear strike against the United States by the Soviet Union, follow…

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First Strike

★ 0.0 1979