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The Thin Blue Line
Chronicling the true story of Randall Dale Adams, an ordinary innocent man, who has been falsely accused of murdering a police man in Dallas, after his car went broken in the road, leaving him alone in the road, so he receives help from a young teenager guy who stole a motorbike, the thing that brings terrible for Randall.
5 February 1948, Hewlett, Long Island, New York, USA
2 January 1952, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
17 December 1948, Grove City, Ohio, USA
1942
February 11, 2003
Furthering its genre irregularity, it employs no narration to guide the viewer, and each shot is carefully static and composed. Its central scene, even, is a fabricated element in what is largely a non-fiction film.
December 22, 2006
Arguably no other film of the 1980s, fiction or non-fiction, was as significant in blurring the boundaries between what's reel and real and in demonstrating the remarkable impact a movie could have.
April 17, 2001
... sets a new standard
November 11, 2015
...engaging as a procedural and compelling as a meditation on the nature of truth.
February 13, 2006
Errol Morris' breakout documentary is immaculate.
July 08, 2004
Accomplished but detached; you're pulled in, but you couldn't be blamed for resisting.
March 23, 2015
The Thin Blue Line is one of the films that helped make documentaries a viable entertainment option for arthouse moviegoers during the indie-film boom of the 1980s and '90s.
March 31, 2015
Morris was working in a dangerous middle ground between the traditional documentary and the fictional feature film, and his merging of various techniques paid off in a film of singular uniqueness in both its aesthetic approach and its real-world impact.
