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The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 American documentary film by Errol Morris, about the trial and conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. Morris became interested in the case while doing research for a film about Dr. James Grigson, a psychiatrist known in Texas as "Dr. Death" for testifying with "100 percent certainty" of a defendant's ...
- Mark Lipson
- Philip Glass
- US$1,209,846 (US and Canada)
- American Playhouse
Aug 25, 1988 · The Thin Blue Line: Directed by Errol Morris. With Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson. A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
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- Documentary, Crime
- Errol Morris
- 1988-08-25
A filmmaker investigates the case of a man who was wrongly convicted of murder and the man who claims to be innocent. The Thin Blue Line uses interviews, reconstructions, and visuals to present a complex and troubling story of a crime, a trial, and a justice system.
A documentary that investigates the wrongful conviction of a drifter for the murder of a police officer in Dallas, Texas. The film reenacts the crime scene and the investigation, and exposes the flaws and corruption of the justice system.
The " thin blue line " is a term that typically refers to the concept of the police as the line between law and order and chaos in society. [1] The "blue" in "thin blue line" refers to the blue color of the uniforms of many police departments. The thin blue line symbol has been used by the Blue Lives Matter movement since 2014, [2] and it has ...
Mar 25, 2015 · A documentary film by Errol Morris that investigates the trial and conviction of Randall Adams, an innocent man who was sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer in Dallas, Texas. Morris uses stylized lighting, music, and color coding to challenge the conventions of nonfiction filmmaking and expose the miscarriage of justice.
Watch the acclaimed film that exposed a wrongful conviction and changed the course of justice. The Thin Blue Line is a masterpiece of journalism, drama, and music by Philip Glass.
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