Errol Morris
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Interviews and profiles Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Errol Morris' second feature reveals just how interesting and eccentric the residents of a small town can be. Featured are a turtle keeper, a worm farmer, and most memorably, an extremely enthusiastic turkey hunter.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
1978.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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,...
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 699
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
Errol Morris (The Fog of War) 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...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The popular hero of several Tony Hillerman best-sellers, Navajo cop Jim Chee, is a student of the old ways who wanted to be a medicine man before he became a lawman. Now as a cop covering the Arizona Territories belonging to the Hopi and Navajo Indians, he's torn between both worlds. When the badly mutilated victim of a Navajo skinwalker is found on Hopi land, Chee is suddenly plunged into a world of mystery filled with drug dealers, F.B.I. agents,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 753
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of drifter Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.
Series
Drafthouse Films volume no. 14
Publisher
Final Cut for Real ApS
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Director's cut and theatrical cut.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min., 166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (37 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Indonesian
Description
"The act of killing" is an examination of the murder of political dissidents in Indonesia by government sponsored death squads in the years following the military coup in 1965, in which the filmmakers were successful in persuading those responsible to reenact the killings for the camera in the fashion of American movies.
12) American Dharma
Author
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...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The film critic best known for his "Chicago Sun-Times" reviews and his thirty years as co-host of "Siskel & Ebert at the Movies" describes his life and career, including his recovery from alcoholism and the complications from thyroid cancer treatment.