10 Facts About Documentary films

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Documentary films film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Documentary films practice is the complex process of creating documentary projects.

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Travelogue Documentary films were very popular in the early part of the 20th century.

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Propagandist tradition consists of Documentary films made with the explicit purpose of persuading an audience of a point.

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One of the most celebrated and controversial propaganda Documentary films is Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will, which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by Adolf Hitler.

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The editors of the movement—such as Werner Nold, Charlotte Zwerin, Muffie Myers, Susan Froemke, and Ellen Hovde—are often overlooked, but their input to the Documentary films was so vital that they were often given co-director credits.

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Nature of documentary films has expanded in the past 20 years from the cinema verite style introduced in the 1960s in which the use of portable camera and sound equipment allowed an intimate relationship between filmmaker and subject.

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Compilation Documentary films were pioneered in 1927 by Esfir Schub with The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty.

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The Documentary films aimed for immediacy, intimacy, and revelation of individual human character in ordinary life situations.

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Documentary films translators are not usually specialists in a given field.

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