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EXCLUSIVE: Errol Morris, who made his name with Texas true-crime documentary The Thin Blue Line, is heading back to the Lone Star state for his latest project. Morris will exec produce a docuseries End of Sentence with Rebel Hearts producer Anchor Entertainment and director Zo Wesson about the case…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has your first look at documentary thriller Enemies of the State, which IFC Films is releasing in theaters and On Demand July 30. The film from investigative journalist and documentarian Sonia Kennebeck (National Bird, United States vs. Reality Winner) examines the strange case of Matt DeHart, an…

IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to Sonia Kennebeck's (National Bird) documentary thriller Enemies of the State which is executive produced by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War). The docu will be released this summer. Enemies of the State, which made its world premiere at…

UPDATED with video: Joanna Harcourt-Smith, the alluring subject of Errol Morris' Showtime documentary My Psychedelic Love Story, became enthralled in the 1970s with the LSD guru Timothy Leary. It's a sentiment the Oscar-winning filmmaker could understand. "I had met Timothy Leary just before he died. I was amazed,"…

UPDATED, 2:15 PM: We now have the first trailer for Showtime Documentary Films’ feature-length docu about LSD pioneer Timothy Leary from Oscar-winning director Errol Morris. The pic has been titled My Psychedelic Love Story and is set to premiere at 9 p.m. Sunday, November 29, on premium cable net. Check out the…

For at least some of us who lived through the counter-culture/psychedelic era of the late '60s and early '70s, Timothy Leary was one of the most annoying or, at least, equivocal figures of a time that hardly lacked for colorful characters. The most famous utterance of this often articulate, madly attention-seeking…

The 34th annual AFI Fest said Monday that Showtime’s Errol Morris-directed documentary My Psychedelic Love Story will close the festival next month. The movie follows LSD high priest Timothy Leary and how he became a narc in 1974 and abandoned the millions he urged to turn on, tune in and drop out. Was his "perfect…

The FX docuseries A Wilderness of Error takes a deep dive into the case of Army surgeon and Green Beret Jeffrey MacDonald, who was convicted in 1979 of killing his wife and two daughters nearly a decade earlier. The series premieres September 25, with episodes available the next day on Hulu. Based on Errol Morris'…

Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris is at the Venice Film Festival presenting his Steve Bannon documentary, American Dharma, out of competition. The Fog Of War director faced some tough questions from the press corps this afternoon, particularly as to whether he was normalizing and giving a platform to the…

While Steve Bannon won’t be attending The New Yorker Festival in October after an online backlash against the event Monday night, Deadline has learned he is expected to attend a Venice Film Festival official screening of Errol Morris’ out-of-competition documentary American Dharma, of which he is the focus. We hear…

The Errol Morris documentary series Wormwood has made Emmy history even before the nominations are announced. The Netflix hit is being submitted for Emmy consideration in a variety of nonfiction categories, including Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. And yet because of extensive dramatizations in Wormwood…

Netflix has released a first-look at Errol Morris’s (The B-Side) upcoming documentary-scripted hybrid series Wormwood, a true story of Eric Olson’s journey to uncover the truth about his father's death. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, the six-part series, which combines narrative scenes, archival footage, and interviews…