Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris' ground-breaking film 'The Thin Blue Line' looks at a murder, the police investigation, the trial, and the outcome, and the aftermath. Mixing interviews, taped interrogations, still photographs, and recreations, this film asks the simple question: was the right man convicted of this crime?
Morris originally wanted to make a film about 'Dr. Death', a Texas psychiatrist who helped get many men committed to death row. While he was looking into that story, he learned of the case of Randall Dale Adams, who was serving life in prison for the murder of a police officer. Questions had existed since the police investigation as to whether they had the right man, or whether a hitchhiker Adams had picked up actually committed the murder.
This documentary had me riveted; here's a man whom the state of Texas, and a jury, decided was a killer. Morris wasn't sure, and the more he dug into the case, the more it seemed as though something terrible had gone wrong.
Morris has made other documentaries which are admirable in their own way, but 'The Thin Blue Line' stands alone as a magnificent piece of film making. I cannot recommend this more strongly. See it!
The film is not rated, but probably should be PG-13 because of subject matter
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