A son's riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colby's son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows, and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nation's most cloaked actions.... (Full plot summary below)
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A son's riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colby's son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows, and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nation's most cloaked actions.
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| Village VoiceAaron HillisRespectful, loving, but never lionizing, Carl's thorough investigation transcends his personal catharsis to become an enduring treatise on how character flaws affect policy. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAt once a deeply personal film and an important historical document, The Man Nobody Knew leaves us with an incomplete portrait of a man. Did Colby have a moral core? Did he know what was truth, and what was a lie? Did he sanction assassination plots? Did he love his family? Was he even capable of love? |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleA remarkable feat of personalized biography. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineFascinating, deeply researched documentary about the long career of elusive CIA spymaster William Colby by his son provides more lessons about how access counts in both espionage and filmmaking. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThe Man Nobody Knew is packed with knowledge of another sort. It amounts to an absorbing, sometimes appalling course in how U.S. foreign policy evolved and functioned following World War II. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckCarl Colby's deeply felt exploration of his father's life and career is as emotionally, as it is historically, intriguing, even if the filmmaker ultimately admits that he's never quite able to get to the bottom of his subject's enigmatic personality. |
| WaffleMovies.comWillie WaffleGoes a bit further than that to become a study of American foreign policy and CIA involvement |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)It takes far too long for "The Man Nobody Knew" to get to the point. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongThere's a reason spies are called spooks; it's as if they have no human essence. If William Colby had one, his son hasn't found it in this film. But he has found the emptiness. And that's something. |
| Time OutDavid FearThe film occasionally skews a little on the PBS-dry side, but in terms of looking back on a legacy of American skullduggery and high-level shenanigans, its access and acknowledgment of our dark past make for one intimate indictment. |
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
