Errol Morris  

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Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director primarily of documentaries examining and investigating, among other things, authorities and eccentrics. His 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line, is cited among the best and most influential documentaries ever made. 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.

Filmography

Feature films

• Gates of Heaven (1978)
• Vernon, Florida (1981)
• The Thin Blue Line (1988)
• The Dark Wind (1991), fiction movie
• A Brief History of Time (1991)
• Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
• Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
• The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
• Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
• Tabloid (2010)
• The Act of Killing (executive producer) (2012)
• The Unknown Known (2013)
• The Look of Silence (executive producer) (2014)
• Happy Father's Day (video) (2015)
• Uncle Nick (executive producer) (2015)
• The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2016)
• National Bird (executive producer) (2016)
• American Dharma (2018)
• Enemies of the State (executive producer) (2020)
• My Psychedelic Love Story (2020)

Short films

• Survivors (2008)
• They Were There (Documentary short) (2011)
• El Wingador (Documentary short) (2012)
• Three Short Films About Peace (2014)
• Leymah Gbowee: The Dream (Documentary short) (2014)

Television

• Errol Morris Interrotron Stories: Digging Up the Past (TV miniseries documentary) (1995)
• First Person (TV series documentary) (17 episodes) (2000)
• Op-Docs (TV series documentary trilogy)
  • The Umbrella Man about Umbrella man (JFK assassination) (2011)
  • November 22, 1963 (2013)
  • A Demon in the Freezer (2016)
• P.O.V. (executive producer) (2014–2016)
• It's Not Crazy, It's Sports (TV documentary series) (2015)
  • The Subterranean Stadium (TV movie) (2015)
  • The Streaker (TV movie) (2015)
  • The Heist (TV movie) (2015)
  • Most Valuable Whatever (TV movie) (2015)
  • Chrome (TV movie) (2015)
  • Being Mr. Met (TV movie) (2015)
• Zillow Hiram's Home (TV movie) (2016)
• Wormwood (miniseries) (2017)

See also

• The Unknown Known