Errol Morris
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
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,...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A work of meticulous journalism and gripping drama, it recounts the disturbing tale of Randall Adams, a drifter who was charged with the murder of a Dallas police officer and sent to death row, despite overwhelming evidence that he did not commit the crime.
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 movie...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the surfaces of those who visited her Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables.
Series
Cinedigm volume 14
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Indonesian
Appears on list
Description
The filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 699
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking's body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening...
11) Separated
Publisher
Greenwich
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
Academy Award�-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family2s plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
12) Vernon, Florida
Series
Criterion collection volume 752
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Errol Morris changed the face of documentary filmmaking in the US. Here he travels to a languorous southern backwater and meets a handful of fascinating folks; a determined turkey hunter, a curious minister, and a laconic policeman, engaged in individualistic, sometimes absurd pursuits.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison-"one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq" (The New York Times Book Review)
A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, Standard Operating Procedure is a war story that takes its place among the classics. Acclaimed author Philip Gourevitch presents the story behind a defining moment in the war,...
A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, Standard Operating Procedure is a war story that takes its place among the classics. Acclaimed author Philip Gourevitch presents the story behind a defining moment in the war,...
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