Synopsis:

Kevin Macdonald meets Errol Morris, the man responsible for some of the most thought-provoking documentaries of the 80s and 90s. A former philosophy student and private investigator, Errol Morris has become an important force in the documentary world in America and has made several feature length documentaries on both political and philosophical issues. His breakthrough came with the film The Thin Blue Line (1988), which actually saved an innocent man from death row. After this he made different films, the last one being Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Dr. Fred Leuchter, Jr. (1999). The film features interviews with Errol Morris who talks about his work and his films, whilst German director Werner Herzog and composer Phillip Glass speak about their co-operation with Morris. The documentary starts with his first films, Gates of Heaven (1978) and Vernon, Florida (1981), and ends up with his last ones, A Brief History of Time (1992), Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (1997) and Mr. Death (1999). Morris' short career as private detective is also focused on, and he proudly explains his latest invention - an interviewing machine.