Errol Morris

Errol Morris

Born: February 5, 1948
in Hewlett, Long Island, New York, USA
Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. As of 2010, Morris has won one Academy Award for Best Documentary Film.

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Tune Out the Noise
Title: Tune Out the Noise
Released: October 21, 2023
Type: Movie
TUNE OUT THE NOISE is about a group of unlikely upstarts who crossed paths at the University of Chicago in the middle of the 20th century, just as computers were first being used to analyze data. That serendipitous, monumental shift enabled them to develop, and then apply, research that turned Wall Street upside down, from its ineffectual investing methods to how those were sold to the public. This is a story about a decades-long revolution of science triumphing over speculation in the financial services industry. It's an illuminating exploration of how markets work, and why that matters.
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Title: A Wilderness of Error
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 2020
Type: TV
When Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald is sent to prison for killing his family, a storm of swirling narratives challenges our very ability to find the truth all the while overshadowing a chilling possibility: MacDonald may be an innocent man. Based on the best-selling book by Errol Morris.
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American Dharma
Title: American Dharma
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
A portrait of controversial Breitbart honcho and Donald Trump advisor, Stephen K. Bannon.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Title: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Character: Self
Released: January 24, 2019
Type: Movie
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.
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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Title: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Character: Self
Released: June 2, 2017
Type: Movie
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 studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.
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An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell
Title: An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell
Character: himself
Released: August 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Finding unexpected beauty in the discarded and decayed, photographer Rosamond Purcell has developed an oeuvre of work that has garnered international acclaim, graced the pages of National Geographic and over 20 published books, and has enlisted admirers such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Errol Morris and Stephen Jay Gould. AN ART THAT NATURE MAKES details Purcell’s fascination with the natural world—from a mastodon tooth to a hydrocephalic skull—offering insight into her unique way of recontextualizing objects both ordinary and strange into sometimes disturbing but always breathtaking imagery.
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Bob Geldof: The Moment
Title: Bob Geldof: The Moment
Character: Himself (voice)
Released: October 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Bob Geldof grew up listening to the radio on the outskirts of Dublin, where his loneliness and resentment of prescribed drudgery manifested itself in an all-consuming desire to escape. It was an almost quintessential rock-star story — rebellion, transgression, fame, drugs, escapades, fading glory. That is, until he turned on the news one late-October evening in 1984 and saw a short story about a famine that moved him and changed his life. The next year, Mr. Geldof was in the Sahel region of Africa, overseeing distribution of the $140 million he and his fellow musicians ultimately helped to raise in one of the largest charity efforts ever organized.
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Life Itself
Title: Life Itself
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: July 4, 2014
Type: Movie
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.
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Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Title: Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Character: Self
Released: November 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Directors Errol Morris and Werner Herzog describe and discuss the film The Act of Killing (2012).
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The Unknown Known
Title: The Unknown Known
Character: Self - Interviewer (voice)
Released: August 29, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Capturing Reality
Title: Capturing Reality
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2008
Type: Movie
From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?
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Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Title: Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese.
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The Fog of War
Title: The Fog of War
Character: Self
Released: December 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
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Title: First Person
Released: February 16, 2000
Type: TV
First Person was an American TV series produced and directed by Errol Morris. The show engaged a varied group of individuals from civil advocates to criminals. Interviews were conducted with "The Interrotron", a device similar to a teleprompter: Errol and his subject each sit facing a camera. The image of each person's face is then projected onto a two-way mirror positioned in front of the lens of the other's camera. Instead of looking at a blank lens, then, both Morris and his subject are looking directly at a human face. Morris believes that the machine encourages monologue in the interview process, while also encouraging the interviewees to "express themselves to camera".
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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Title: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Character: Self - Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1999
Type: Movie
A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by holocaust revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, working in and around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.
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A Brief History of Errol Morris
Title: A Brief History of Errol Morris
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 1999
Type: Movie
This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary film making in recent cinema history. This comprehensive overview of Morris' career includes clips of all his important films as well as interviews with collaborators such as Werner Herzog and Phillip Glass.
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Title: Independent Focus
Character: Self
Released: September 9, 1998
Type: TV
In these insightful one-on-one interviews, the industry’s biggest and brightest join host Elvis Mitchell (film authoritarian and critic for The New York Times) in front of a live audience for an in-depth look at the art of filmmaking and a discussion about their latest and greatest works.
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Bride of the Orient
Title: Bride of the Orient
Released: March 2, 1989
Type: Movie
After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners.
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Hotel New York
Title: Hotel New York
Released: March 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay.
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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Title: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 1980
Type: Movie
Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.