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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 ...
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- Philip Glass
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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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- 1988-08-25
Dec 8, 2023 · The Thin Blue Line, a groundbreaking documentary film directed by Errol Morris, has been the subject of much discussion since its release in 1988.Known for its powerful storytelling and investigative framework, the film delves into the case of Randall Adams, who as an innocent man was sentenced to death for murdering a Dallas, Texas, police officer in 1976.
Mar 25, 2015 · Mar 25, 2015. E rrol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line (1988) is widely recognized as a monumental achievement in the documentary tradition. A recent poll by the British Film Institute ranked it fifth in the documentary pantheon. In 2001, it was placed on the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. For those viewing this canonical film ...
Philip Glass. Among the most important documentaries ever made, The Thin Blue Line, by Errol Morris, erases the border between art and activism. A work of meticulous journalism and gripping drama, it recounts the disturbing tale of Randall Dale Adams, a drifter who was charged with the murder of a Dallas police officer and sent to death row ...
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A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas. Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas, Texas. Briefly, a drifter (Randall Adams) ran out of gas and was picked up by a 16 ...
Those moments are the result of a 30-month investigation by Errol Morris, one of America’s strangest and most brilliant documentary filmmakers, who sometimes jokes that he is not a “producer-director” but a “detective-director.” Morris originally went to Texas to do a documentary on Dr. James Grigson, a Dallas psychiatrist nicknamed “Doctor Death” because in countless capital ...
