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Errol Morris

Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American documentary film director. Morris gained fame after the release of The Thin Blue Line, a film arguing that a man convicted of murder in Dallas County, Texas had been convicted wrongfully; the film was submitted as evidence to secure the retrial leading to the man's eventual release. Before making that film, Morris spent some years as a private investigator.

He won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2004 for The Fog of War, a life and times of Vietnam-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.

In December 2001, the United States' National Film Preservation Foundation announced that Morris' The Thin Blue Line would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, bringing the total at the time to 325.

Films by Errol Morris

• Gates of Heaven
• The Thin Blue Line
• Vernon, Florida
• A Brief History of Time
• Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
• Fog of War (film)

Morris also had a television show, First Person, with shorter weekly documentary films.

Films about Errol Morris

• Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
• A Brief History of Errol Morris