Bridget Laudien
Errol Morris
FilmmakerKnown for:
The Thin Blue Line (1988), The Fog of War (2003)
Education:
University of Wisconsin-Madison (BA, history, 1969); graduate studies at Princeton and UC Berkeley (did not complete)
Errol Morris directed The Thin Blue Line (1988) - a documentary about a wrongfully convicted man on Texas's death row that combined Philip Glass's score with stylized re-enactments of the crime - and is credited with securing the subject's release and establishing the docudrama as a tool for justice. He invented the Interrotron, a device that allows interview subjects to make eye contact with the camera while looking directly at the interviewer, and has used it in all his subsequent work. His The Fog of War (2003) won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Errol Morris's Gear List(1)
Connection note
Morris uses Canon digital cameras for his documentary filmmaking, complementing his Interrotron interview system. His equipment choices are documented in interviews about his production process.
Product description
Introduced in 2012, the 5D Mark III is a 22.3-megapixel full-frame DSLR. Its combination of resolution, 6 frames-per-second continuous shooting, and weather sealing made it one of the most widely adopted cameras among professional fashion, editorial, and documentary photographers of the 2010s.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
