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The Thin Blue Line (1988)

Name: The Thin Blue Line
Director: Errol Morris
Genre: documentary film
Rating: 7.9

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 recidivism in many trials,…

Directed by Errol Morris · Shot by Robert Chappell · Music by Philip Glass

Elsewhere

More by Errol Morris

The Pigeon Tunnel
Separated
Tune Out the Noise
Gates of Heaven — 1978
Vernon, Florida — 1981
A Brief History of Time — 1991
The Dark Wind — 1991
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control — 1997
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. — 1999
The Fog of War — 2003
Standard Operating Procedure — 2008
Tabloid — 2010
They Were There — 2011
The Unknown Known — 2013
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography — 2016
American Dharma — 2018
CHAOS: The Manson Murders — 2025

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