Category: Documentary
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Documentary Film
A documentary film is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to “document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record”. Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of “a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries”. Early documentary films, originally called…
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Historical Drama
While historical drama is fiction, works may include references to real-life people or events from the relevant time period or contain factually accurate representations of the time period. Works may also include mostly-fictionalized narratives based on actual people or events, such as Braveheart, Les Misérables, and Titanic. Works that focus on accurately portraying specific historical…
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Reportage
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on current events based on facts and supported with proof or evidence. The word journalism applies to the occupation, as well as citizen journalists who gather and publish information based on facts and supported with proof or evidence. Journalistic media include print, television, radio, Internet, and, in…
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Historical Film
Since the beginning of film movies set in historical times have been some of the most popular works. D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation and Buster Keaton’s The General being an example of two early American works bus set during the U.S. Civil War. In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity such…
