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Errol Morris
Catalogued films 24Director 19Actor 8
Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of its subjects. In 2003, his documentary film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His film The Thin Blue Line placed fifth on Sight & Sound's poll of the greatest documentaries ever made. Morris is known for making films about unusual subjects; Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of a wild animal trainer, a topiary gardener, a robot scientist and a naked mole rat specialist.
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Chaos: The Manson Murders
Separated
Tune Out the Noise
The Pigeon Tunnel
American Dharma
Wormwood
The B-Side
The Unknown Known
Tabloid
Standard Operating Procedure
The Fog of War
The Movie Movie (An Excerpt)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
A Brief History of Time
The Dark Wind
The Thin Blue Line
Vernon, Florida
Gates of Heaven
