" 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 ( TV series ), a British sitcom set in a police station, starring Rowan Atkinson, David Haig and Serena Evans

* 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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In 1991 he performed on Broadway in the short-lived musical Nick and Nora ( based on the Thin Man film ) with Joanna Gleason, the daughter of Monty Hall.

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During the second half of the 1990s she starred in several films such as the ensemble romantic film ' Til There Was You ( 1997 ) with Dylan McDermott and Sarah Jessica Parker, The Thin Pink Line ( 1998 ), the animated feature The Iron Giant ( 1999 ), and the critically acclaimed comedy Office Space ( 1999 ).

Thin film phosphor electroluminescence was first commercialized during the 1980s by Sharp Corporation in Japan, Finlux ( Oy Lohja Ab ) in Finland, and Planar Systems in the USA.

Thin film heads were electronically similar to ferrite heads and used the same physics.

Thin film heads were much smaller than MIG heads and therefore allowed smaller recorded features to be used.

Thin film heads allowed 3. 5 inch drives to reach 4GB storage capacities in 1995.

The terrier George was played by Skippy, most famous for playing Asta in The Thin Man film series ( and co-starring with Grant as Mr. Smith in The Awful Truth ).

Despite the controversy, the Friday night film block resumed on March 26, 2010 with Into Thin Air: Deaths on Everest under the title " Flick and a Forecast.

Twenty years after Days of Heaven, Malick returned to film directing in 1998 with The Thin Red Line, a loose adaptation of the James Jones World War II novel of the same name, for which he gathered a large ensemble of famous stars.

After the Thin Man is a 1936 American film, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and James Stewart, that is the sequel to the film The Thin Man.

Another Thin Man is a 1939 American film that is the third film in the six-volume series, The Thin Man.