The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988, USA)

Randall Adams is a drifter and is stranded one day, his car run out of gas, and is then luckily picked up by a 16 year old boy. They spent the day together drinking beer, smoking marijuana and going to a drive-in-movie. This is where their stories go separate ways and Adams gets slammed into jail for a murder Harris claimed he committed.

The movie uses interviews, witness testimony and staged events. It not only puts its criticism into words but also uses teqnique to convey the text. This movie did a big part to have Adams retrialed and released from prison, and from then Adams has been an anti-death penalty activist. David Ray Harris was later executed on separate charges for another murder.

Morris did get any attention from inside the film culture though it was a changepoint in Adams life, but he later won the Oscar for The Fog of War in the year 2004 and also nominated in Directors Guild of America for the same film.