Legacy
Variety credits the film in a 2008 retrospective of documentaries as “the most political work of cinema in the last 20 years.”
The film has had a considerable influence on later television and documentary film, often credited with pioneering the style of modern crime-scene reenactments.
In 2001, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Current TV placed the film 2nd on their list of 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die in 2011.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)