List of the best Errol Morris movies: The Fog of War(2003), The Thin Blue Line(1988), Standard Operating Procedure(2008), Gates of Heaven(1978), A Brief History of Time(1992), Tabloid(2010), The Unknown Known(2013), The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley(2019) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2003
105 Minutes
Director
secretary of defense president viet cong soldiers gen. william westmoreland vietnam vet chilling patriotic somber emotional vietnam washington, d.c. pentagon military base vietnam war politics communism government controversy war
The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.
Documentary
USA
1988
106 Minutes
Director
drifter murderer petty criminal judge psychiatrist cop dark disturbing shocking powerful texas prison courtroom injustice murder corruption death row mystery underdog quest
A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
Documentary, War, Crime, Drama
USA
2008
116 Minutes
Director
Megan Ambuhl Graner Javal Davis Ken Davis Anthony Diaz Tim Dugan Lynndie England
soldier prisoner photographer pregnant woman iraqi powerful gripping disturbing iraq prison court scandal abu ghraib prison responsibility transformation fall 2000s
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Documentary
UK|Japan|USA
1992
84 Minutes
Director
Isobel Hawking Janet Humphrey Mary Hawking Basil King Derek Powney Norman Dix Robert Berman Roger Penrose Dennis Sciama John Wheeler Brandon Carter
scientist astronomer professor mother fascinating inspiring quirky cambridge university classroom england universe illness discovery pursuit rise 1990s
A film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time.
Documentary
USA
2010
88 Minutes
Director
missionary beauty queen rapist mormon disturbing quirky wild emotional england wyoming morality mormonism rape tabloid journalism joyce mckinney escape temptation love 2010s
A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.
Documentary
USA
2013
102 Minutes
Director
donald rumsfeld politician president gerald ford engaging united states the unknown life career rise 2000s
Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Documentary
USA
2019
119 Minutes
Elizabeth Holmes Errol Morris Dan Ariely Tyler Shultz John Carreyrou Tim Draper
scientist inventor woman fascinating engaging united states entrepreneurship science inventions discovery 21st century
A rag-tag group of undocumented youth - Dreamers - deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.