Errol Morris
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xxv, 310 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
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English
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"Academy Award-wining filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. In Believing Is Seeing Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography. In his inimitable style, Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs, from the ambrotype of three children found clasped in the hands of an unknown soldier at Gettysburg to...
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xviii, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case. In 1979 MacDonald was convicted of the brutal 1970 murder of his wife and two children, and remains in prison today. Since then a number of bestselling books, including Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision, and a blockbuster television miniseries have attempted to solve and explain the...
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xv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the creator of such classics of documentary investigation as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War. Kuhn, meanwhile, was--and, posthumously, remains--a star in his field, the author of The Structure of Scientific...
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color and black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of American politics and military policies as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara. McNamara is a controversial and influential political figure. He offers a candid journey through some of the most seminal events in contemporary American history. He offers insights into the 1945 fire bombing of Tokyo, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the effects of the Vietnam...
Series
Criterion collection volume 699
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Errol Morris (The Fog of War) turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking's body has been accompanied by the untrammeled...
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Cinedigm volume no. 14
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2 videodiscs (122 min. ; 166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages).
Language
Indonesian
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The filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love.
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The popular hero of several Tony Hillerman best-sellers, Navajo cop Jim Chee, is a student of the old ways who wanted to be a medicine man before he became a lawman. Now as a cop covering the Arizona Territories belonging to the Hopi and Navajo Indians, he's torn between both worlds. When the badly mutilated victim of a Navajo skinwalker is found on Hopi land, Chee is suddenly plunged into a world of mystery filled with drug dealers, F.B.I. agents,...
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Criterion collection volume 753
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
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English
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Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of drifter Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.
10) American Dharma
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English
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The third installment in Academy Award winning documentary torchbearer Errol Morris's trilogy of documentaries probing polarizing political figures, including Oscar winner, The Fog Of War, and the Emmy-nominated The Unknown Known. In American Dharma, Morris interviews controversial Donald Trump political strategist Steve Bannon to try and make sense of the man and the movement. The film had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival to a standing...