In 2003, Errol Morris won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. Morris is considered by many to be the greatest living documentary filmmaker, yet many are unfamiliar with his strange and fascinating portrayal of a small Florida community in Vernon, Florida (1981). Morris' work on the film began as a research trip investigating loss-of-limb insurance claims in the Florida panhandle. It turns out that this region of the U.S. had some of the highest claim rates for this type of accident in the 1950s and 1960s. This backstory is probably enough to see that there are some subcultural tendencies to be had in Morris' film. Because of death threats that he received, Morris had to cut out any mention of the "nub city" aspects from Vernon, Florida (you can read a great piece from the Tampa Bay Times about the story). What we get is equally curious, at times disturbing, and all the while fascinatingan obsessive turkey hunter, a preacher who speaks incessantly about the word "therefore" in his sermon, a couple who says that they can grow sand in a jar, and an extremely bored local police officer. The result is an interesting rumination on the personalities of small-town people who represent a much different side of American life.