The Thin Blue Line
Dir: Errol Morris
1988
*****
The Thin Blue Line is the perfect documentary. Everything from the stunning reconstructions, the interviewing techniques, research, editing and even soundtrack (by the excellent Philip Glass) is perfect. You can see why this is now the blueprint for most young aspiring documentary makers, although unfortunately (in most cases) it isn't very often that a documentary can have such a huge effect on its subject matter like The Thin Blue Line did. It's a shame  Randall Adams ended up being so ungrateful towards Errol Morris but as Morris so kindly put it, ' ..I just don't understand what it's like to be in prison for that long for a crime you hadn't committed.' Quite charitable really considering that he saved his life and all Adams wanted was money, talk about ungrateful. Deserved all the praise it got and still gets.