Roger Ebert has said, "After twenty years of reviewing films, I haven't found another filmmaker who intrigues me more...Errol Morris is like a magician, and as great a filmmaker as Hitchcock or Fellini." More





There'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. You make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.




Loaned your copy of Fast, Cheap and Out of Control to your ex? Forgot to get your dad a father's day gift? Visit the store.



Nubar Alexanian, still photographer for Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Mr. Death and the Fog of War.

Kyle Cooper, designer of the animated sequences included the main and end credits for Standard Operating Procedure.

Elsa Dorfman photographed Errol's film subjects and family since 1990.

Bill Drenttel, Michael Bierut, and Betsy Vardell, designers of these web pages, are partners of Winterhouse, Pentagram and RubyStudio, respectively, and contributors to Design Observer.

Danny Elfman, composer of the score for Standard Operating Procedure.

Robert Fernandez represents Errol for commercial work at Moxie Pictures.

Philip Glass, composer of the scores for Fog of War, Thin Blue Line and Brief History of Time.

Philip Gourevitch, author of the book Standard Operating Procedure is also the editor for the Paris Review.

Steve Hardie, production designer for Fog of War and many commercials.

John Kusiak, composer of the musical scores for the First Person television series and numerous television commercials.

Mark Lipson, producer and still photographer for Thin Blue Line.

Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and columnist for The New York Observer.

Randy Thom and John Nutt, sound designers for Standard Operating Procedure work out of Skywalker Sound.

Jeff Selis, author of Cat Spelled Backwards Doesn't Spell God and agency producer of the Miller High Life campaign.

Tim Onosko, has completed a documentary Lost Vegas: The Lounge Era. It is narrated - like my Cisco commercials - by Ricky Jay.

Errol's latest film, Standard Operating Porcedure, will be released on April 25th. The Sony Pictures Classics website is now online. The trailer is now available on apple.com.



The Believer
Werner Herzog talks with Errol Morris

"FOR YOU TO STEAL A CHARACTER OR A STORY ISN'T REAL THEFT. BUT TO STEAL A LANDSCAPE, THAT IS A VERY, VERY SERIOUS CRIME."

Things Werner Herzog and Errol Morris have done together: Visited serial killer Ed Kemper in prison Visited Plainfield, Wisconsin, to investigate the murderer Ed Gein Dug up Ed Gein's mother's grave to see if she was still there (almost)



Standard Operating Procedure, the first documentary ever shown in competition at the Berlin film festival, won the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prize.

Am I supposed to object to this? ...


The New Yorker website has posted an excerpt from the book, Standard Operating Procedure, as well as video clips from the film.

Ron Rosenbaum writes about Errol's blog post for the New York Times, Cartesian Blogging, Part One.

Only the unimaginative carpenter...



Watch Errol's Full Tilt Poker Spots.



Watch the Short Film Errol made for the opening of the Oscars and 2002.

Then see how many people you recognized.

Isn't everybody familiar with Anselm's ontological proof of the existence of God?



Watch Errol's Hewlett Packard spot shot in Helsinki back in 2000.


Watch two of the finished Quaker Ames Room spots.

Also watch a flash animated explaination of how Steve Hardie built the Ames Room used in the commercials.

I look at the world of fauna and flora around me, and it becomes completely obvious that it can not be explained by the processes of natural selection.

Natural selection would have done a better job.


Updated with twenty "more" spots for a total of Eighty.

This updated encylcopedia of High-Life material also includes the only apocalyptic High-Life spot - Staying Alert.

(If you are interested in other apocalyptic commercials, see the Southern Comfort spot - Bomb Shelter.)

Interrogation Practices

Kenneth Turan reviews Standard Operating Procedure L.A. Times.

You Don't See Outside the Frame

Roger Ebert's review of Standard Operating Procedure.

Holding Them Responsible

Ty Burr reviews Standard Operating Procedure for The Boston Globe.

At Abu Ghraib

Peter Rainer reviews Standard Operating Procedure for The Christian Science Monitor.

On Film

The Chicago Reader picks Standard Operating Procedure as a Critics Choice for this weekend.

Scott Tobias reviews Standard Operating Procedure for The Onion.

Studio 360

Kurt Anderson talks to Errol about Standard Operating Procedure on Studio 360.

Problem with Photography

Guest observer Teddy Blanks reviews Standard Operating Procedure on the Design Observer website.

Questions for Errol

The Harper's Magazine website has a question and answer between W.J.T. Mitchell and Errol.

Listen to Errol talk about Standard Operating Procedure on NPR's Day to Day.

David Samuels profiles Errol in the current issue of Wired Magazine.

Chris Wisniewski reviews Standard Operating Procedure for Indiewire.

Errol is featured in this month's GQ written by Chris Heath.

Christopher Dickey reviews Standard Operating Procedure for Newsweek.

In the May issue of Harper's W.J.T. Mitchell reviews Standard Operating Porcedure.



Order Nubar Alexanian's book of photograps of Errol's sets.


Standard Operating Procedure, a book written by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris to be published by Penguin Press on May 15, 2008.

Ron Rosenbaum writes about Errol's use of slow motion in Standard Operating Porcedure for Slate.

A question and answer with Errol in print and video from the Columbia Journalism Review by Michael Meyer.

Listen to Errol talk about the truth on Christopher Lydon's radio show "Open Source"

The Onion has a interview with Errol talking about his movies recently release on DVD.

Mike Clark of USA Today writes that "two of the best non-fiction films ever Gates of Heaven and The Thin Blue Line come to DVD from MGM/Sony." on July 26th

FLM Magazine Summer 2005 issue contains an article by Errol about the upcoming DVD Collection release.

Errol wins Outstanding Achievement Award at Hot Docs Festival in Toronto.

Hiawatha Bray, of the Boston Globe, uses Errol's Sharp campaign as an example of an alternate reality game.

Stuart Elliott, of the New York Times, writes about Errol's new campaign for HSBC.