First Person (2000)

Name: First Person
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Rating: 8.6
Cast: Errol Morris

Biography · Documentary

First Person was an American TV series produced and directed by Errol Morris. The show engaged a varied group of individuals from civil advocates to criminals. Interviews were conducted with "The Interrotron", a device similar to a teleprompter: Errol and his subject each sit facing a camera. The image of each person's face is then projected onto a two-way mirror positioned in front of the lens of the other's camera. Instead of looking at a blank lens, then, both Morris and his subject are looking directly at a human face. Morris believes that the machine encourages monologue in the interview process, while also encouraging the interviewees to "express themselves to camera".

IMDb rating: 8.6 (392 votes)
Seasons: 2
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Errol Morris

Seasons

Season 1 (2000)

7.47 avg 11 episodes 6.6 → 8.0 24 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Mr. Debt	6.6	22
2	Eyeball to Eyeball	7.5	23
3	Stairway to Heaven	8.1	63
4	The Killer Inside Me	7.6	24
5	I Dismember Mama	7.7	21
6	The Stalker	7.1	22
7	The Parrot	7.5	24
8	Smiling in a Jar	7.5	18
9	In the Kingdom of the Unabomber	7.3	20
10	The Little Grey Man	7.3	24
11	You're Soaking in It	8.0	19

Season 2 (2001)

7.63 avg 6 episodes 7.1 → 7.4 38 min avg

Slow burn

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Mr. Personality	7.1	23
2	The Only Truth	7.4	21
3	Harvesting Me	7.1	19
4	One in a Million Trillion	8.0	28
5	Leaving the Earth	8.8	33
6	The Smartest Man in the World	7.4	30

First Person (2000)

Cast

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