" Regardless, The Thin Blue Line, as Morris's film would be called, was popularly accepted as the main force behind getting its subject, Randall Adams, out of prison.

As Morris said of the film, " The Thin Blue Line is two movies grafted together.

And on another level, The Thin Blue Line, properly considered, is an essay on false history.

According to a survey by The Washington Post, The Thin Blue Line made dozens of critics ' top ten lists for 1988, more than any other film that year.

To this day, The Thin Blue Line is one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries ever made.

In this documentary, Morris brought to a pinnacle the revolutionary technique that he had first introduced to the world in his 1988 The Thin Blue Line: the use of re-enactments in a documentary film — a technique ( re-enactments ) which had previously been thought to be inappropriate for use in a " documentary " film.

* The Thin Blue Line ( 1988 )

* 2002 International Documentary Association list of the 20 all-time best documentaries: The Thin Blue Line (# 2 ), Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (# 14 )

* In December 2001, the United States ' National Film Preservation Foundation announced that Morris's The Thin Blue Line would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, bringing the total at the time to 325.

* Washington Post Best Film of the Year for The Thin Blue Line ( 1988 )

* New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics Best Documentary for The Thin Blue Line ( 1988 )

* Golden Horse for Best Foreign Film at the Taiwan International Film Festival for The Thin Blue Line ( 1988 )

* Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture, from the Mystery Writers of America, for The Thin Blue Line ( 1989 )

The Thin Blue Line is a colloquial term for police and police forces.

* The Thin Blue Line ( emblem ), an emblem representing the camaraderie of police officers

* The Thin Blue Line ( film ), a 1988 documentary film by Errol Morris concerning the murder of a police officer

* The Thin Blue Line, a 1966 documentary film by William Friedkin about the police and the problems they encounter

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Shiva's focus on water has seen her appear in a number of related films: " Ganga from the ground up " a documentary on water issues in the river Ganges ,, Blue Gold: World Water Wars by Sam Bozzo, Irena Salina's documentary Flow: For Love of Water ( in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival ) and the PBS NOW documentary On Thin Ice.

Some of the most successful examples include As Time Goes By, Steptoe and Son, Dad's Army, Keeping Up Appearances, The Likely Lads, Fawlty Towers, Allo Allo, The Good Life, Are You Being Served ?, Yes Minister, Only Fools and Horses, Absolutely Fabulous, Red Dwarf, The Vicar of Dibley, Father Ted, Blackadder, One Foot in the Grave, Some Mothers Do Ave Em, Porridge, The Thin Blue Line, The Office, The Young Ones, Coupling, Outnumbered and Game On.

Other well-known trios from the 1970s and 1980s include The James Gang ; Glass Harp ; Raven ; Budgie ; Grand Funk Railroad ; Triumph ; Blue Cheer ; Johnny Winter's Progressive Blues Experiment ; Motörhead ; The Minutemen ; West, Bruce and Laing ; The Jam ; The Police ; Rush ; Zebra ; ZZ Top ; Robin Trower Band and, until the album Nightlife, Thin Lizzy.

In the Crimean War, the Charge of the Light Brigade and the Thin Red Line at the Battle of Balaclava showed the vulnerability of cavalry, when deployed without effective support.

* The Thin Red Line ( disambiguation )

Others were trying to represent a more harrowing side of the reality of the war such precursor movies as the German Joseph Vilsmaier's Stalingrad, Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot and the later, American director Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

Howard Jones, who had recently left his job as manager of The Haçienda, producer Martin Hannett, and Tim Chambers agreed to work with the band on an album, setting up Thin Line Records to release it, with Jones taking on management of the band, although they had already made a similar agreement with Caroline Reed in London.

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Beginning in 1999, Joe Mantegna played Spenser in three TV movies on the A & E cable network: Small Vices ( 1999 ), Thin Air ( 2000 ), Walking Shadow ( 2001 ), with Marcia Gay Harden as Susan and Shiek Mahmud-Bey and later Ernie Hudson as Hawk.

It made several further appearances in other movies and TV shows over the next few decades, including episodes of The Thin Man and The Addams Family.

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* Top TV newcomer: James Dreyfus ( The Thin Blue Line )

* He played the part of a burglary victim in the episode The Queen's Birthday Present in Series 1 of The Thin Blue Line ( TV series ) ( BBC 1995 )

The book was adapted into the 1997 TV movie Into Thin Air: Death on Everest, starring Peter Horton as Scott Fischer and Christopher McDonald as Jon Krakauer.

* Into Thin Air ( 1985 ) ( TV )

* The Thin Blue Pie ( 2000 ) ( TV )-Frank Rizzo

There was also a successful appearance on Rod Stewart's BBC TV show in the UK, where Thin Lizzy upstaged their host by playing live, whereas Stewart mimed.

Mark Addy Johnson ( born 14 January 1964 ) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Detective Constable Gary Boyle in the British sitcom The Thin Blue Line, Mad TV, Dave in the film The Full Monty, father Bill Miller in the U. S. sitcom Still Standing and most recently as King Robert Baratheon in the HBO medieval fantasy epic Game of Thrones.

Addy made his first TV appearance in 1988 in A Very Peculiar Practice, followed by TV performances in shows such as Heartbeat, Band of Gold, Married with Children ( one episode ), Bruised Fruit, Peak Practice, The Thin Blue Line, Too Much Sun, Sunnyside Farm and most recently Trollied.

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest, a TV movie on the 1996 Everest disaster, starred Nathaniel Parker as Rob Hall.

* Jesse Stone: Thin Ice ( 2009 ) ( TV ) ( grip )

* The Thin Man TV series ( 1950s )

* Thin Ice ( TV series ), a British situation comedy

The story " Maybe You Will Remember " told in Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 and the episode " Into Thin Air " of the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents were based on the same story.

Safeway has featured in its TV commercials two songs from Thin Mercury Sound, including " Clean Getaway " in the summer of 2005 and " Lioness " in 2004.

* On Thin Ice, 2003 ( actor ; TV )

* Jesse Stone: Thin Ice ( 2009 ) ( TV movie )