The Thin Blue Line 1988

In 1976, a chance ride from teenager David Harris sets off a chain reaction that leads to the wrongful conviction of Randall Dale Adams for a murder he didn't commit. As the truth unravels, Errol Morris' gripping documentary reveals a tangled web of perjured testimony, misleading eyewitness accounts and police misconduct that sent an innocent man to prison.

In 1976, a chance ride from teenager David Harris sets off a chain reaction that leads to the wrongful conviction of Randall Dale Adams for a murder he didn't commit. As the truth unravels, Errol Morris' gripping documentary reveals a tangled web of perjured testimony, misleading eyewitness accounts and police misconduct that sent an innocent man to prison.

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The Thin Blue Line does not have end credit scenes.

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79

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8.3

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