Errol Morris

Errol Morris

Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. As of 2010, Morris has won one Academy Award for Best Documentary Film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Errol Morris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Errol Morris
  • Popularity: 3.72
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1948-02-05
  • Place of Birth: Hewlett, Long Island, New York, USA
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Errol Morris Movies

  • 2003
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    The Fog of War

    The Fog of War

    7.7 2003 HD

    Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from...

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  • 2007
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    Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

    Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

    6.4 2007 HD

    Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with...

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  • 1999
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    A Brief History of Errol Morris

    A Brief History of Errol Morris

    6.75 1999 HD

    This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary film making in recent cinema...

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  • 2013
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    The Unknown Known

    The Unknown Known

    6.871 2013 HD

    Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s...

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  • 2014
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    Life Itself

    Life Itself

    7.509 2014 HD

    The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...

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  • 2023
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    Tune Out the Noise

    Tune Out the Noise

    1 2023 HD

    TUNE OUT THE NOISE is about a group of unlikely upstarts who crossed paths at the University of Chicago in the middle of the 20th century, just as...

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  • 1980
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    Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

    Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

    7 1980 HD

    Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever...

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  • 2013
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    Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'

    Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'

    1 2013 HD

    Directors Errol Morris and Werner Herzog describe and discuss the film The Act of Killing (2012).

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  • 1989
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    Bride of the Orient

    Bride of the Orient

    7.7 1989 HD

    After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride...

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  • 1984
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    Hotel New York

    Hotel New York

    5 1984 HD

    A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she...

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  • 1988
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    The Thin Blue Line

    The Thin Blue Line

    7.7 1988 HD

    Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

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  • 2008
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    Capturing Reality

    Capturing Reality

    6.1 2008 HD

    From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the...

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  • 2014
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    Bob Geldof: The Moment

    Bob Geldof: The Moment

    1 2014 HD

    Bob Geldof grew up listening to the radio on the outskirts of Dublin, where his loneliness and resentment of prescribed drudgery manifested itself in...

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  • 2019
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    The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

    The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

    7.1 2019 HD

    With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire,...

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  • 1999
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    Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

    Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

    7 1999 HD

    A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an...

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  • 2019
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    American Dharma

    American Dharma

    6.4 2019 HD

    A portrait of controversial Breitbart honcho and Donald Trump advisor, Stephen K. Bannon.

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  • 2016
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    An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell

    An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell

    5 2016 HD

    Finding unexpected beauty in the discarded and decayed, photographer Rosamond Purcell has developed an oeuvre of work that has garnered international...

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  • 2017
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    The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

    The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

    6.8 2017 HD

    Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years, she...

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  • 1991
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    A Brief History of Time

    A Brief History of Time

    7.2 1991 HD

    This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer....

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  • 2002
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    The Movie Movie (An Excerpt)

    The Movie Movie (An Excerpt)

    1 2002 HD

    A documentary featuring Donald Trump discussing Citizen Kane.

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  • 1981
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    Vernon, Florida

    Vernon, Florida

    6.6 1981 HD

    Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few...

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  • 1978
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    Gates of Heaven

    Gates of Heaven

    6.7 1978 HD

    A documentary about the men who run a pet cemetery, and the men and women who bury their pets.

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  • 1997
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    Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

    Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

    6.8 1997 HD

    Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique...

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  • 1997
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    Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

    Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

    6.8 1997 HD

    Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique...

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  • 2008
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    Standard Operating Procedure

    Standard Operating Procedure

    6.8 2008 HD

    Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

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  • 2008
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    Standard Operating Procedure

    Standard Operating Procedure

    6.8 2008 HD

    Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

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  • 1999
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    Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

    Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

    7 1999 HD

    A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an...

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  • 2003
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    The Fog of War

    The Fog of War

    7.7 2003 HD

    Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from...

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  • 2003
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    The Fog of War

    The Fog of War

    7.7 2003 HD

    Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from...

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  • 1988
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    The Thin Blue Line

    The Thin Blue Line

    7.7 1988 HD

    Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

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  • 2010
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    Tabloid

    Tabloid

    6.5 2010 HD

    A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.

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  • 1991
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    The Dark Wind

    The Dark Wind

    5.3 1991 HD

    An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.

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  • 2011
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    The Umbrella Man

    The Umbrella Man

    7.364 2011 HD

    On the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Errol Morris explores the story behind the one man seen standing under an...

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  • 2008
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    Survivors

    Survivors

    6 2008 HD

    Errol Morris gives voice to cancer survivors who beat the disease, and the loved ones of those who did not.

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  • 2011
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    They Were There

    They Were There

    5.2 2011 HD

    What does it mean to be an IBMer? Every employee experiences the company in different ways, but the global impact IBM has made on business and...

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  • 2012
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    El Wingador

    El Wingador

    5.5 2012 HD

    The filmmaker Errol Morris explores the excessive eating habits of a five-time champion of the Philadelphia Wing Bowl.

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  • 2013
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    The Unknown Known

    The Unknown Known

    6.871 2013 HD

    Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s...

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  • 2015
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    It's Not Crazy, It's Sports

    It's Not Crazy, It's Sports

    1 2015 HD

    A compilation of shorts directed by Errol Morris.

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  • 2013
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    Benoît Mandelbrot, The Father of Fractals

    Benoît Mandelbrot, The Father of Fractals

    1 2013 HD

    A short subject by Errol Morris on pioneering mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, who first described the mathematical concept of fractals.

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  • 2012
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    Team Spirit

    Team Spirit

    1 2012 HD

    Errol Morris short film on sports fans who take their love with them to the grave and beyond.

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  • 2013
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    November 22, 1963

    November 22, 1963

    7.3 2013 HD

    Josiah “Tink” Thompson discusses the Kennedy assassination, the nature of truth and photographic evidence in this short film from...

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  • 2012
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    The Act of Killing

    The Act of Killing

    7.7 2012 HD

    Filmmakers expose the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating...

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  • 1970
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    Untitled Ed Gein Documentary

    Untitled Ed Gein Documentary

    1 1970 HD

    A look at the relationship between Ed Gein and Psycho.

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  • 2015
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    The Subterranean Stadium

    The Subterranean Stadium

    1 2015 HD

    Errol Morris takes us to a long-running basement electric football league.

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  • 2015
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    The Streaker

    The Streaker

    1 2015 HD

    Errol Morris introduces us to the world's most prolific streaker.

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  • 2015
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    The Heist

    The Heist

    1 2015 HD

    Michael Jordan’s retired North Carolina jersey is stolen.

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  • 2023
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    The Only Girl in the Orchestra

    The Only Girl in the Orchestra

    1 2023 HD

    Trailblazing double bassist Orin O’Brien never wanted the spotlight, but when Leonard Bernstein hired her in 1966 as the first female musician...

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  • 2015
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    Being Mr. Met

    Being Mr. Met

    1 2015 HD

    In Errol Morris’s fourth of six shorts for ESPN Films, we learn, through a former Mr. Met, what it’s like to be a mascot — to be...

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  • 2015
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    Most Valuable Whatever

    Most Valuable Whatever

    1 2015 HD

    How much would you pay for Ty Cobb’s dentures in an auction? Errol Morris’s final short for ESPN Films takes a look at the stranger side...

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  • 2015
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    Chrome

    Chrome

    1 2015 HD

    For Steve Coburn, California Chrome was a literal dream come true. In Errol Morris’s fifth of six shorts for ESPN Films, we meet the passionate...

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  • 2014
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    Lech Walesa: The Shipyard

    Lech Walesa: The Shipyard

    1 2014 HD

    Lech Walesa, a shipyard worker and electrician in Soviet-bloc Poland, earned a reputation as an agitator and rabble-rouser in the 1970s for speaking...

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  • 2014
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    Bob Geldof: The Moment

    Bob Geldof: The Moment

    1 2014 HD

    Bob Geldof grew up listening to the radio on the outskirts of Dublin, where his loneliness and resentment of prescribed drudgery manifested itself in...

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  • 2014
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    Leymah Gbowee: The Dream

    Leymah Gbowee: The Dream

    1 2014 HD

    Through her activism to topple Liberia’s dictator, Leymah Gbowee was able to restore her own faith in humanity. Part 1 of “Three Short...

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  • 2012
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    11 Excellent Reasons Not to Vote?

    11 Excellent Reasons Not to Vote?

    1 2012 HD

    Do we have reasons not to vote? How can we hear so much about the election, and not participate? If hope isn’t doing it, isn’t the fear...

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  • 1988
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    The Thin Blue Line

    The Thin Blue Line

    7.7 1988 HD

    Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

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  • 2023
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    Tune Out the Noise

    Tune Out the Noise

    1 2023 HD

    TUNE OUT THE NOISE is about a group of unlikely upstarts who crossed paths at the University of Chicago in the middle of the 20th century, just as...

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  • 2023
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    Tune Out the Noise

    Tune Out the Noise

    1 2023 HD

    TUNE OUT THE NOISE is about a group of unlikely upstarts who crossed paths at the University of Chicago in the middle of the 20th century, just as...

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  • 2013
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    The Unknown Known

    The Unknown Known

    6.871 2013 HD

    Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s...

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  • 2015
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    The Look of Silence

    The Look of Silence

    7.828 2015 HD

    An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.

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  • 2016
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    National Bird

    National Bird

    6.7 2016 HD

    Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections,...

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  • 2016
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    Demon in the Freezer

    Demon in the Freezer

    6 2016 HD

    Errol Morris' "Demon in the Freezer" is a short 17-minute documentary about the stockpiles of the smallpox virus that remain stored for research...

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  • 2017
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    The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

    The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

    6.8 2017 HD

    Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years, she...

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  • 2016
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    The Lure

    The Lure

    7.2 2016 HD

    An eccentric millionaire hides $3 million of gold somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, luring thousands out on a wild treasure hunt in search of riches...

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  • 2010
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    Dennis Jakob Unplugged

    Dennis Jakob Unplugged

    1 2010 HD

    Short film featuring musings on film art with Dennis Jakob

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  • 1978
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    Gates of Heaven

    Gates of Heaven

    6.7 1978 HD

    A documentary about the men who run a pet cemetery, and the men and women who bury their pets.

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  • 1978
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    Gates of Heaven

    Gates of Heaven

    6.7 1978 HD

    A documentary about the men who run a pet cemetery, and the men and women who bury their pets.

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  • 2017
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    Wormwood

    Wormwood

    7 2017 HD

    In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.

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  • 2001
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    Gretchen Worden: The Mutter Museum

    Gretchen Worden: The Mutter Museum

    1 2001 HD

    Gretchen Worden oversees one of the strangest and creepiest collections in existence. As director of The Mutter Museum, she presides over preserved,...

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  • 2019
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    American Dharma

    American Dharma

    6.4 2019 HD

    A portrait of controversial Breitbart honcho and Donald Trump advisor, Stephen K. Bannon.

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  • 2024
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    Separated

    Separated

    1 2024 HD

    Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations. Based on NBC...

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  • 2023
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    The Pigeon Tunnel

    The Pigeon Tunnel

    6.8 2023 HD

    Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world...

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  • 2023
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    The Pigeon Tunnel

    The Pigeon Tunnel

    6.8 2023 HD

    Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world...

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  • 2023
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    The Pigeon Tunnel

    The Pigeon Tunnel

    6.8 2023 HD

    Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world...

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  • 1999
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    Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

    Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

    7 1999 HD

    A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an...

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  • 2019
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    American Dharma

    American Dharma

    6.4 2019 HD

    A portrait of controversial Breitbart honcho and Donald Trump advisor, Stephen K. Bannon.

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  • 1981
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    Vernon, Florida

    Vernon, Florida

    6.6 1981 HD

    Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few...

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  • 2021
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    Enemies of the State

    Enemies of the State

    6 2021 HD

    From the outside, the DeHart’s were an All-American family. Parents Paul and Leann were U.S. Military members, and son Matt was obsessed with...

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  • 2020
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    My Psychedelic Love Story

    My Psychedelic Love Story

    6 2020 HD

    An examination of the notorious high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of his famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith.

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  • 2020
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    My Psychedelic Love Story

    My Psychedelic Love Story

    6 2020 HD

    An examination of the notorious high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of his famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith.

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  • 2024
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    Separated

    Separated

    1 2024 HD

    Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations. Based on NBC...

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  • 2000
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    First Person

    First Person

    9 2000 HD

    First Person was an American TV series produced and directed by Errol Morris. The show engaged a varied group of individuals from civil advocates to...

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  • 1998
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    Independent Focus

    Independent Focus

    9 1998 HD

    In these insightful one-on-one interviews, the industry’s biggest and brightest join host Elvis Mitchell (film authoritarian and critic for The...

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  • 2020
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    A Wilderness of Error

    A Wilderness of Error

    6.1 2020 HD

    When Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald is sent to prison for killing his family, a storm of swirling narratives challenges our very ability to find the...

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  • 1970
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    A Wilderness of Error

    A Wilderness of Error

    6.8 1970 HD

    Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social...

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  • 1970
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    A Wilderness of Error

    A Wilderness of Error

    6.1 1970 HD

    When Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald is sent to prison for killing his family, a storm of swirling narratives challenges our very ability to find the...

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  • 1970
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    A Wilderness of Error

    A Wilderness of Error

    9 1970 HD

    First Person was an American TV series produced and directed by Errol Morris. The show engaged a varied group of individuals from civil advocates to...

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  • 1970
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    A Wilderness of Error

    A Wilderness of Error

    9 1970 HD

    First Person was an American TV series produced and directed by Errol Morris. The show engaged a varied group of individuals from civil advocates to...

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  • 1970
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    A Wilderness of Error

    A Wilderness of Error

    6.4 1970 HD

    In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.

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  • 1970
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    A Wilderness of Error

    A Wilderness of Error

    6.4 1970 HD

    In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.

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  • 1970
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    A Wilderness of Error

    A Wilderness of Error

    6.4 1970 HD

    In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.

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