Filmmaker Errol Morris has a way of getting into people’s heads. He’s made an art form out of the documentary interview—even inventing a camera device called the Interrotron which allows him to maintain eye contact with his subjects while shooting. Errol Morris’ First Person: The Complete Series is the definitive collection of the 2000 titular TV show, featuring Morris as he employs the Interrotron on a different interesting subject every episode. Profiles of Temple Grandin, an autistic slaughterhouse designer (also the subject of a fascinating Oliver Sacks essay in his book An Anthropologist on Mars); Max, a parrot who’s the only eyewitness in a murder trial; Chris Langan, a nightclub bouncer who has the highest recorded IQ in history, and 14 other fascinating oddities make up the series. Out July 26.

Some of Morris’s feature films will also be re-released next week. MGM’s Errol Morris DVD Collection contains earlier and influential works like 1980 pet cemetery doc Gates of Heaven (one of Roger Ebert’s favourite movies!), 1981’s Vernon, Florida and 1988’s The Thin Blue Line. » Mark Slutsky