Errol Morris
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Academy Award-wining filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. In Believing Is Seeing Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography. In his inimitable style, Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs, from the ambrotype of three children found clasped in the hands of an unknown soldier at Gettysburg to...
Author
Language
English
Description
Early, on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a Green Beret doctor named Jeffrey MacDonald called the police for help. When the officers arrived at his home, they found the bloody and battered bodies of MacDonald's pregnant wife and two young daughters. The word "pig" was written in blood on the headboard in the master bedroom. As MacDonald was being loaded into the ambulance, he accused a band of drug-crazed hippies of...
Language
English
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Description
This classic documentary by Errol Morris showcases workers in the animal burial industry while dealing with heavier existential questions regarding mortality and the afterlife. The first pet mortician featured is Floyd "Mac" McClure, who believes that a graceful burial is as important for pets as it is for people. The film chronicles his struggles to keep his niche business afloat, and interviews several of his associates and one of his competitors,...
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winning Director Errol Morris faces off with controversial political strategist and former Donald Trump adviser, Steve Bannon. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival**, **Toronto International Film Festival**, and **The New York Film Festival**.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A truly pioneering film, Morris’s breakthrough changed the world of documentary forever. Through expressionistic reenactments, provocative interviews and a memorable score by Philip Glass, it tells the fascinating, controversial true story of the arrest and trial of Randall Adams for the murder of a Dallas policeman in 1976—and the film itself proved instrumental in overturning Adams’s death-row conviction. Endlessly influential, “the first...
10) American Dharma
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Series
Language
English
Description
The third installment in Academy Award winning documentary torchbearer Errol Morris's trilogy of documentaries probing polarizing political figures, including Oscar winner, The Fog Of War, and the Emmy-nominated The Unknown Known. In American Dharma, Morris interviews controversial Donald Trump political strategist Steve Bannon to try and make sense of the man and the movement. The film had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival to a standing...
11) Life Itself
Author
Language
English
Description
A documentary that recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world-renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert. It's personal, funny, painful, and transcendent. Based on his bestselling memoir of the same name, LIFE ITSELF, explores his life, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism at the Chicago Sun-Times to becoming one of the most influential cultural voices in America.