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How Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line Solved the Crime

Kottke 17 June 2026 17h ago
How Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line Solved the Crime
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Before making his revolutionary documentary film The Thin Blue Line , filmmaker Errol Morris worked as a private detective. His detective skills came in handy not only in making the film but in actually solving the crime at the heart of the story and freeing an innocent man from a prison life sentence. The Thin Blue Line (1988) not only exposed a miscarriage of justice and freed an innocent man fr
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