Watch movies directed by Errol Morris

My Psychedelic Love Story

An examination of the notorious high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of his famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith.

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5.3

2020 Documentary 107 min Play

6.8

American Dharma

A portrait of controversial Breitbart honcho and Donald Trump advisor, Stephen K. Bannon.

NR

6.8

2019 Documentary 95 min Play

7.2

Wormwood

In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.

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7.2

2017 Documentary 256 min Play

6.6

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

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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6.6

2017 Documentary 76 min Play

7.1

The Unknown Known

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

PG-13

7.1

2013 Documentary 102 min Play

6.6

Tabloid

A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.

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6.6

2010 Documentary 87 min Play

7

Standard Operating Procedure

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

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7

2008 Documentary 117 min Play

7.9

The Fog of War

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.

PG-13

7.9

2003 Documentary 107 min Play

7

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer and holocaust denier.

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7

1999 Documentary 91 min Play

7.4

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique obsessions, all of which involve animals. There’s a lion tamer who shares his theories on the mental processes of wild animals; a topiary gardener who has devoted a lifetime to shaping bears and giraffes out of hedges and trees; a man fascinated with hairless mole rats; and an MIT scientist who has designed complex, autonomous robots that can crawl like bugs.

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7.4

1997 Documentary 83 min Play

5

The Dark Wind

An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.

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5

1991 Drama 111 min Play

7.4

A Brief History of Time

The story of the extraordinary life of eminent scientist, Steven Hawking. As he goes through school, and despite being diagnosed with ALS, Hawking develops revolutionary theories about time, black holes, and the origin of the universe.

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7.4

1991 Documentary 80 min Play

7.8

The Thin Blue Line

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

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7.8

1988 Crime 103 min Play

6.7

Vernon, Florida

Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.

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6.7

1981 Documentary 55 min Play

6.9

Gates of Heaven

A documentary about the men who run a pet cemetery, and the men and women who bury their pets.

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6.9

1978 Documentary 85 min Play