Auteur

Errol Morris

Born 1948 · American filmmaker and writer

Errol Mark Morris is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects. In 2003, his The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His film The Thin Blue Line placed fifth on a Sight & Sound poll of the greatest documentaries ever made. Morris is known for making films about unusual subjects; Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of an animal trainer, a topiary gardener, a robot scientist, and a naked mole-rat specialist. Morris invented the Interrotron, an idiosyncratic camera set up that allows an interview subject to look directly at the interviewer’s face while also looking straight at the camera.

Errol Morris, in order

  1. 1978 Gates of Heaven: directed, created, produced
  2. 1981 Vernon, Florida: directed, created, produced · critics 100%, audiences 79% · streaming on Philo, AMC+, Kanopy
  3. 1988 The Thin Blue Line: directed, wrote, created · critics 100%, audiences 90% · streaming on Philo, AMC+, Kanopy
  4. 1991 A Brief History of Time: directed, created · critics 94%, audiences 81% · streaming on HBO Max, Criterion Channel
  5. 1991 The Dark Wind (TV movie): directed · audiences 21%
  6. 1997 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control: directed, created, produced · critics 97%, audiences 84% · streaming on Roku Channel
  7. 1999 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.: directed · critics 100%, audiences 87% · streaming on Philo, AMC+
  8. 2003 The Fog of War: directed, wrote, created, produced · critics 97%, audiences 93% · streaming on Roku Channel
  9. 2007 Manufacturing Dissent: acted · directed by Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine · critics 54%, audiences 39%
  10. 2008 Standard Operating Procedure: directed, wrote · critics 78%, audiences 79% · streaming on Tubi
  11. 2010 Tabloid: directed, created · critics 91%, audiences 72% · streaming on Philo, Pluto TV, Plex
  12. 2011 They Were There: directed
  13. 2013 The Unknown Known: directed, wrote, created · critics 82%, audiences 70%
  14. 2014 Life Itself: acted · directed by Steve James · critics 98%, audiences 88% · streaming on Philo, Kanopy, Hoopla
  15. 2016 National Bird: produced · directed by Sonia Kennebeck · critics 100%, audiences 60% · streaming on Prime Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
  16. 2016 The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography: directed · critics 97%, audiences 68% · streaming on Kanopy
  17. 2017 Wormwood (TV series): directed · critics 90%, audiences 65% · streaming on Netflix
  18. 2018 American Dharma: directed · critics 61%, audiences 68% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Kanopy
  19. 2025 CHAOS: The Manson Murders: directed · critics 56%, audiences 26% · streaming on Netflix
  20. First Person (TV series): directed
  21. Separated: directed · streaming on Kanopy
  22. The Pigeon Tunnel: directed · streaming on Apple TV
  23. Tune Out the Noise: directed, wrote