The Thin Blue Line
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Errol Morris
Hootie Nelson
Derek Horton
Sam Kittrell
Edith James
Emily Miller
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Using interviews and re-enactments, the film examines the 1976 murder of a Dallas policeman, and the wrongful conviction of one of the two men implicated in the killing.
Director
Errol Morris
Cast
Hootie Nelson
Derek Horton
Sam Kittrell
Edith James
Emily Miller
Ron Thornhill
Dale Holt
Michael Cirilla
Melvyn Carson Bruder
Dennis White
Adam Goldfine
Elba Carr
Marianne Leone
Michael Randell
Dennis Johnson
Michael Nicoll
Don Metcalfe
David Harris
Gus Rose
Floyd Jackson
Marshall Touchton
Amanda Caprio
R L Miller
Randall Adams
Jackie Johnson
Phyllis Rodgers
Crew
Steve C. Aaron
James Allen
Ted Bafaloukos
Ted Bafaloukos
Randall Balsmeyer
Paul Barnes
Lauretta Bender
Pamela Benham
Mike Blundell
Jay Boggis
Ned Burgess
Mel Cannon
Phil Carr-forster
Fred Cassidy
Robert Chappell
Robert Chappell
Tim Chin
Lester Cohen
Paul Conklin
Christine Cornell
Sean Coughlin
Mary Cybulski
Stefan Czapsky
Stefan Czapsky
Kenny Davis
Michel Deprez
Joseph Dianda
Dan Dryden
Blaise Dupuy
Anne-marie Fendrick
Brad Fuller
Brad Fuller
John Geisler
Philip Glass
Richard Guya
Elizabeth Hickox
David Hohmann
Joseph Horowitz
Sarah Horowitz
Shelley Houis
Marc Henry Johnson
Rory Johnston
Richard Kamper
Brian Katkin
Jamie Kibban
Dmitry Kilbrik
Elizabeth Kling
Michael Kolvek
Nancy Kriegel
Michael Latino
Lindsay Law
Jack Leahy
Samuel Lehmer
Samuel Lehmer
Mark Lipson
Theodore Mayes
Theodore Mayes
Gary Mcdonald
Sheila Mcfarland
Marnie Moore
Errol Morris
Kurt Munkacsi
Teresa O'brien
Felix Oliver
Larry Oppenheimer
Marshall Persinger
Dale Pierce-johnson
Joe Ponzi
Dandrea Releasing
Michael Riesman
Sally Roy
Leslie Schatz
Craig Schichter
Bruce Shaw
Susan Sheehan
Newton Thomas Sigel
Charles Silver
Mark Singer
Peter Sova
Steven Stoke
Chris Strand
Daniel Talpers
Randy Thom
Leslie Topping
Matt Vogel
Carah Von Funk
David Waterston
Aaron Weissblatt
Pamela Woodbridge
Mel Zelniker
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Film was the winner of the 1989 Edgar Allan Poe award for Motion Pictures. Film won the 1989 annual Golden Horse Award in Taiwan.
Released in United States 1988
Released in United States August 1999
Released in United States December 1989
Released in United States March 18, 1988
Released in United States November 1988
Released in United States on Video January 26, 1989
Released in United States September 15, 1988
Released in United States September 1988
Released in United States September 1989
Released in United States September 1990
Released in United States September 2, 1988
Released in United States Summer August 26, 1988
Shown at Boston Film Festival September 15, 1988.
Shown at Deauville Film Festival September 1-11, 1989.
Shown at Festival dei Popoli Florence December 7-10. 1989.
Shown at Gen Art Summer Arts Festival in New York City August 5-9, 1999.
Shown at London Film Festival November 14 & 15, 1988.
Shown at Munich Film Festival June 25-July 3, 1988.
Shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York City in the series "American Playhouse Ten Years of Independent Filmmaking" September 21 & 22, 1990.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival March 18, 1988.
Shown at Toronto Festival of Festivals September 8-17, 1988.
Broadcast over PBS on "American Playhouse" May 24, 1989.
Began shooting June 1, 1987.
Selected in 2001 for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.
Released in United States 1988 (Shown at Munich Film Festival June 25-July 3, 1988.)
Released in United States on Video January 26, 1989
Released in United States August 1999 (Shown at Gen Art Summer Arts Festival in New York City August 5-9, 1999.)
Released in United States Summer August 26, 1988
Released in United States September 1988 (Shown at Toronto Festival of Festivals September 8-17, 1988.)
Released in United States September 1989 (Shown at Deauville Film Festival September 1-11, 1989.)
Released in United States September 1990 (Shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York City in the series "American Playhouse Ten Years of Independent Filmmaking" September 21 & 22, 1990.)
Released in United States September 2, 1988 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States December 1989 (Shown at Festival dei Popoli Florence December 7-10. 1989.)
Released in United States September 15, 1988 (Shown at Boston Film Festival September 15, 1988.)
Released in United States March 18, 1988 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival March 18, 1988.)
Released in United States November 1988 (Shown at London Film Festival November 14 & 15, 1988.)
Released in USA on laserdisc June 1989.
