The Thin Blue Line

Tuesday, July 7 - Wednesday, July 8, 2026

SHOWTIMES AT IFC CENTER

A truly pioneering film, Morris’s breakthrough changed the world of documentary forever. Through expressionistic reenactments, provocative interviews and a memorable score by Philip Glass, it tells the fascinating, controversial true story of the arrest and trial of Randall Adams for the murder of a Dallas policeman in 1976—and the film itself proved instrumental in overturning Adams’s death-row conviction. Endlessly influential, “the first movie mystery to actually solve a murder” remains as surprising, entertaining and fresh as ever.

Screening as part of our series Declaration of Independents!

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Previously screened as part of the series Documentary Now…And Forever!

  • Country USA
  • Year 1988
  • Running Time 103 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor IFC Entertainment Group
  • Director Errol Morris
  • Cast Randall Adams, David Ray Harris
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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