Cable showing Documentaries

In the last 6 months or so, a couple of cable channels have shown two recent documentaries I'd wanted to, but hadn't gotten around to seeing. Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man" (Discovery Channel) and, tonight, Errol Morris' "The Fog of War" (History Channel), the roman à clef/mea culpa from Robert "Strange" McNamara.



There are a lot of good parts - the WWII destruction of Japanese cities translated into percentages of American cities, McNamara's story of picking out JFK's final resting place, first-hand accounts of Curtis LeMay. Probably not the best documentary I've ever seen, but shows some amazing stuff about government throughout the 1960's, and a lot of insight how wars happen in the control positions. And I think he sums up the theme with the rhetorical question, "What is morally appropriate in a wartime environment?" Which the 1960's certainly was. (Relevance?)

“In this war, things get confused out there — power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity ... because there’s a conflict in every human heart between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil. And good does not always triumph.”

General Corman - Apocalypse Now



Anyway, if you have cable and like the documentaries, just a possible trend I thought I'd point out.