"I'm James Ellroy, the demon dog of american crime fiction, a guy came on earth to bring back noir novel to what it should be." In this austrian documentary (1993), James Ellroy confesses himself with violence & poetry and he came back to the key places of its universe. It released in theaters in the USA in 1998. Internet Movie Database Movie Review Query Engine Official site Snap Resource Center Epinions.com New York Times Review

"I want to know why my mother was assassinated, why America of XXe century was such a long voyage, ugly, underhand and bloody."

• English documentary shot in 1994-1995 and produced by Channel Four
• The camera is following Ellroy and Bill Stoner during the investigation on his mother's murder.

• Documentary written by François Guerif, the french editor of Ellroy, and produced by MK2 TV.
• A french terrestrial channel, France 3, broadcasted it in march 2000 in the serie A century of writers
• Télérama article (in french).
• Le Monde article (in french).
• TéléObs article (in french).

• Documentary produced for the release of The Cold Six Thousand.
• Broadcast on May 6, 2001 on BBC 2.
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