Documentary Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Response to the Movie “We are Wizards”

The movie “We are Wizards” is a documentary film that portrays how the renowned Harry Potter series influenced the American youth. It shows that the franchise of J.K. Rowling’s movie has spawned movies and books, but also a lot of genres of creativity such as musical bands. The fans of the series have grown in their creative genres as Harry Potter grows up in his magical world in the movie. Young people, particularly women, were inspired to produce Harry Potter-related blogs, images, and other forms of art. Although the novel has great impact upon the American society and yields ...

Waiting for “Superman”

Waiting for “Superman” is a documentary film produced by Lesley Chilcott and directed by Davis Guggenheim. This documentary produced in 2010 analyzes the shortcomings of the American public school system by following the struggles of several students and their families to gain access into a charter school (Guggenheim, 2012). It features students from across America that has been negatively affected by the public school system. These students together with their families have numerous hardships to overcome yet show a strong determination to succeed and an attitude of never giving up (Spina, 2011). The producer says that the problem lies with the public schools ...

Ethiopia was mainly ruled by Emperors till 1974, where a military coup overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie from power. The documentary looks at some of the major sites that had been built by former emperors and their significances. One of the outstanding things in this documentary is the form of architecture and cosmopolitan-ship by the look of the buildings. In addition, different emperors are isolated, which helps in preserving culture among the Ethiopians. It is crucial to note that most emperors believe that their power was from God and that some Ethiopians fell under King Solomon’s lineage. Given that Ethiopia ...

The movie, “Through Deaf Eyes” is a very touching story about how several individuals learned they were deaf, and coped with the life without sound. The documentary peers into deaf culture through the 19th century to the present. It attempts to show how deaf individuals felt, what they went through, and how they were treated as well as how they are treated now. The documentary aims to celebrate the culture and create an environment of awareness. Though there was not much understanding of these individuals to begin with, they are a strong culture now, with many things to offer society.
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The miracle of face is a movie that explains the impacts that beauty plays as far as our life is concerned. For example, babies are drawn to beautiful faces, and they tend to spend a lot of time scaring at them. But when it comes to ugly faces, they cannot withstand scaring at them-most of the time they will cry while looking for an escape since they are scared by ugly faces. Research has been conducted, and it clearly depicts that even older individuals are scared when it comes to socializing with scary people. Henry having his eye removed-due to facial ...

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Ethics is an integral part for any organization as all organizations deal with human beings. Ethical theories are put in place by the system so as to protect human and animal rights. This paper discusses the ethical theories that are prevalent in the agriculture and food industry. The purpose of this ethical code of conduct is to protect the animals, the workers and the consumers. There are regulatory bodies such the FDA and the USDA that were set up to ensure that the companies followed a particular code of conduct. The paper analyzes the popular documentary Food ...

Institutional Affilitation

What does this documentary tell us about intimate partner relationships “back in the day” (i.e., when the women were first arrested)?
The documentary tells us that intimate partner relationships that involved a married couple do not take into account the weight of the women’s testimony and experience. In the case of Ruby Jameson, her lawyer gave her advice to avoid mention of domestic violence and explicitly discouraged Ruby from using and citing the “Battered Woman Syndrome” that could have alleviated the prison sentence.
Back in the day, the issue of domestic violence was not taken nearly ...

The documentary Erasing Hate offers an interesting perspective on the social reasons behind gang affiliation. Bryon Widner grew up in Albuquerque New Mexico and describes himself as a “street kid.” He was raised by an alcoholic grandmother who told him he was worthless. He was a chronic runaway. skinhead gangs provided the sense of belonging and family support he needed. He started in the White Power Movement when he was 14, and his evolution as a skinhead continued when he moved from New Mexico to Indiana. He was white and poor and was looking for answers in life. He was led to ...

Thames Television produced the series in the 1980, and it explored the making of Hollywood Studio and the influence it had on the culture of 1920s. Every episode of the thirteen in the series was made to center on a precise characteristic of Hollywood past. This term paper examines two episodes of “Hollywood-The Silent Era” namely; “The Pioneers” and “The Man with the Megaphone”. The documentary is written and directed by Kevin Burrow and David Gill.

The pioneers

The Pioneers is the first episode of the series, and it outlines the transition of the film over a period. The episode details how the ...

‘The Suicide Plan’ is a ninety minute documentary film that reflects the shadows of assisted suicides. The main focus of the movie revolves round incidents that dictate underground actualities people who assist others to make an end to their lives. The movie portrays personal stories to establish its relevance with the frequency of the suicides around the United States. Assisted suicide is illegal in almost all the states.
The Suicide Plan is directed, produced and written by Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor. It represents a vital conversation which is directly linked with the humanity itself. It is worth to watch, ...

Introduction

Super Size Me, the 2004 documentary directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, explored Spurlock’s own experimentation with going on a McDonald’s-only diet for a consecutive thirty days. Being a vegetarian and generally active person, this transformation became incredibly dramatic, with dramatic changes in weight, mood, chemical makeup, sex drive and more. The documentary poses the question of how culpable McDonald’s customers are in their own health habits, or whether or not McDonald’s themselves are responsible for the increasing obesity and health problems found in America. Looking at these questions, and the documentary itself, through the ethical perspectives of ...

Film analysis of "Alain Resnais - Night and Fog (1956)" and "Jean Luc Godard - Breathless (1959)"
Each movie is a small story. Each movie carries its own information. Each movie opens the whole world to the viewer, no matter if it is full-length film or a short film or even a documentary. Still, it gives a chance to make own decisions about some particular moments. Another question is how ideal the information was given – did the director in his or her picture manage to cover all the needed aspects. It is not only related to the script. A visual point plays a ...

The “Save Our Souls” episode of the “This Is Civilization” series is a consistent piece of documentary cinematography that gave me an interesting insight on the life of the British art critic John Ruskin. I deeply enjoyed an incredible journey to the Victorian Era with Matthew Collings, and was amazed by the beautiful pieces of art and architecture shown in this episode. The documentary made me open my eyes and take a critical look at the world around.
A travel back in time to the 19th century was very educational. I find the comparison of the Industrialization Era with our ...

Fracknation, a documentary movie by Phelim McAleer is an attempt to explain people that Fracking does not cause contamination of water and air. The movie tries to prove its authenticity to the anti-frackers about the importance of fracking, and how essential it is for any nation to generate energy and gas. McAleer provokes Joshua fox, the director of Gasland; a documentary that released in 2010, to prove fracking can have dangerous and ill effects on the people living the areas that have gas stations. Fracknation also contains a few clippings from the Gasland movie that are used to show how non-authentic are ...

Documentary Food Inc., directed by Robert Kenner, is telling a story about food industry that is in control by huge corporations. Documentary itself is divided in several smaller portions that are connected. Every topic is well covered and explained, with appropriate witnesses and facts. Sometimes documentary is shocking and hard to believe. Shocking to see enormous fields full of cows that are waiting to be slaughtered and transformed to products. Fields full of corn, so long and wide that seems as there is no end to it. Hard to imagine how is possible to keep human population in dark and ...

“Waiting for ‘Superman’” is a powerful documentary movie that highlights and explores the issues and problems with American education system. It brings to fore the failure by schools, teachers, and government to stamp out myriad of problems that students encounter in their pursuit of good education. All the children captured in the documentary have great dreams. For instance, Daisy aspires to be a medic. She has written to one of the colleges to preserve her place. However, Guggenheim is very skeptical about the realization of this dream given the failure rates of most public schools. Guggenheim aptly demonstrates reduced standard of ...

Movie review

Narco Cultura is a 2013 documentary film describing Mexican Drug War in the borderland city of Juarez, directed by Shaul Schwarz. The following documentary focuses on two main story lines: fragments of life and career of Edgar Quintero, American singer, songwriter, and the member of Mexican folk style band named “Buknas de Culiacan”. Another story line portrays daily routine of Ricardo Soto, a crime scene investigator and the member of the police unit investigating numerous drug-related killings in the city of Juarez.
The documentary shows a depressing picture of the city of Juarez struck by the ongoing war on drugs, as ...

Review of the Documentary; Family Across the Sea

Scene 1: Arrival of the Gullah delegation in Sierra Leone.
This scene is set in a ‘dark airport’ as described by the narrator, Augusta Baker, where a crowd is gathered to receive the Gullah descendants, who are on a trip from South Carolina, USA, to Sierra Leone where they trace their roots to. The visitors are believed to be descendants of escaped slaves, and have managed to maintain their culture and way of life despite being thousands of miles away from home. In this reunion scene, there is happiness in the air, with traditional songs of joy being sung. This scene ...

Niall Ferguson, in his famous documentary, The Ascent of Money, presents a detailed account of financial history. Ferguson is a historian who has a profound understanding of economics. His research and way of presenting his arguments is accurate, scientific and commendable. Ferguson presents his arguments in accordance to appropriate facts and figures that educate readers about the European financial history in a realistic manner. This paper intends to discuss Niall Ferguson’s documentary along with discussing other related aspects of the area under discussion.
The documentary is about history of borrowing currency. It also educates readers when people started lending to other ...

Pedophiles have always been portrayed by the media as monsters that do not deserve any forgiveness, and should be punished heavily by the law. At some point, what the media portrays and the negative thoughts that the society has concerning pedophiles can be understood. Their acts are usually unfathomable and for their victims, it might be hard to move past the emotional damage that they usually undergo. Pedophilia has been diagnosed as a psychiatric disorder where older adolescents or adults have exclusive or primary sexual attraction to young people, usually below the age of 11 years.
During the documentary, ...

The Inconvenient Truth is a documentary movie from Philip Davis Guggenheim, an American film director and producer. He is well known for his professional approach and has produced and directed three documentaries in addition to score of other movies. He has the honor of being one of those filmmakers who released three different documentaries ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time. This paper describes the movie in second paragraph, an evaluation of the movie in next five paragraphs and a conclusion in last paragraph.
The Inconvenient Truth is about the threat of global warming and persuasively interlaces ...

In the past years, movies marked as “based on real events” appear more often. Moreover, some of the researchers, as well as ordinary viewers claim that almost every movie is based on real events. The point is that sometimes directors as well as screen play writers tend to exaggerate the importance and cruelty of some events. In the most cases, it happens in horror movies or some documentaries. The point is that the main idea of every documentary is to convince people in something. This essay is devoted to the issue of veracity of the events in three movies: ...

While much has been hypothesized regarding the documentary Iron Wall, it is crucial to note that its construction was hypothesized as the primary strategy that could bring lasting peace between Palestine’s and Israelis. However, the construction of the Iron Wall was not of the best interests of the Palestine’s. Instead, its construction can be seen as a way of establishing settlements on the zone of conflict; hence, avoid any practical attempts to attain lasting peace. Overall, the documentary is filled with bias as it depicts persistent notions that Palestine’s were indeed side lined during the construction of ...

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At the time this documentary was made the gay and transgender lifestyle was largely unknown and considered taboo. This documentary helps to shed light onto this lifestyle and place into context why this lifestyle exists. The documentary seeks to present this lifestyle as more than just a joke, but rather a presentation of the stories of real mean that desperately seek to fit into a society that has no desire to accept them. The men in this story are poor, black, gay, transgendered and desperate to fit into society and find self-realization. This duality ...

Budrus is definitely an inspiring and motivating movie that clearly demonstrates what people can really do under the influence of a leader that renounces violence and manages to unite people that in fact, had nothing to split. It is amazing and note-worthy how a need for fairness can become an entire movement that strives for just, in a world where barriers are built to keep people apart, be it Palestinians from Israelis, to black and white people, to Christian and Muslims and anything else in between.
Like any other documentary, the camera in Budrus has indeed been used to explore and ...

The weather underground is a documentary that outlines the violent protest aimed at overthrowing the United States government. The general set up of the documentary is up to standards. It vividly shows the brutal violence of the protestors opposing the injustices performed by the government. The document is very informative on matters touching on the Vietnam War and how the weatherman got frustrated from the SDA (students for a democratic society). After I did deep review of the subject matter of the movie it is clear that it has captured the important elements of the Vietnam War and the factors that ...

This documentary film by Josh Fox that exposes the devastating impact that gas drilling has on America’s environment. With American energy firms looking for new petroleum sources, natural gas is becoming increasingly important and they have set their sights on the Marcellus Shale Field. The film focuses on hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’, which is a process necessary for gas exploration. Hydraulic fracturing is a process which involves drilling and injection of fluid into the ground at a high pressure so as to fracture shale rocks and in turn releasing the gas inside. The fluid is usually chemically treated water which is ...

The study of irony is rather broad and studying irony in film is as challenging as studying irony in drama or literature. Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman falls in a range of humorist tradition in which small-town culture is treated with irony and nostalgia (Frye 122). Through representations of small-town culture, irony in the film asks the audience where they stand on the issues of meaning, knowledge, subjectivity and values. Waiting for Guffman is full of implicit and ironic messages, and the goal of this critical analysis is to give thoughtful consideration to them.
The film does not ...

Samsara is an intellectual montage documentary, directed and written by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson and produced by Mark Magidson. Filmed over five years in 25 countries all over the globe and shot in 70 mm format, Samsara is a feast to the senses and the intellect. Samsara premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and was given a limited release in August 2012. The word Samsara, or Sansara is a Sanskrit word that explains the universal connections that every living being has with the other, a colossal flow of spiritual spirit that binds all souls together. Samsara discovers the spectacles that ...

"I wanna be Like Mike documentary"

This documentary presents the idea of shift in the perception of opportunity among parents and young people in America. I agree that education in the United States was traditionally treated as being an important pipeline to well-paying jobs and a better life. However, this supposition has slowly been dissolved as the idea of drafting into the NBA has become engrained into the US cultural framework. The American society seems to have little concern about education. Parents and young people have embraced the idea that you do not have to necessarily be educated to be in a position to make large amounts ...

Introduction

Rumi an outstanding poet works are enjoyed by many throughout the world. This is because his poems are wise, ecstatic, and hilarious. This is evidenced by the translations of these works in many countries. Rumi’s poetry has actually influenced the Persian literature as well as Punjabi, Urdu, Turkish, among others. “Love’s Confusing Joy” is a documentary translated by Colman Barks, which is in fact an extension of what Singh said concerning love. Love is not essentially a rational analysis or a matter of intellect in this documentary. After watching the movie, we realize that love cannot be defined just as ...

Abstract

Health is a problem that concerns everyone in the population. Weather it is the ethical aspects regarding IVF treatment or medical engineering, or the fact that health care costs are on the rise and the number of doctors are decreasing. The first set of documentaries viewed concerning healthcare ethics, brought up points for and against the practices in regards to the medical community, the people involved, and the religious aspects of it all. The news documentary viewed brought up many aspects on why healthcare costs are rising, and what is going on now in our state and federal legislature as ...

Movie Review: Farmingville

If someone were to ask me what I think about illegal immigration, I would have a hard time figuring out where to get started. Honestly, I have never really thought about the issue of illegal immigration, and it is not something that directly affects me in any way. However, I am fond of documentary films in which political and social climates are analyzed, and Farmingville (2004), directed by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini is one such documentary. Moreover, the issue of illegal immigration that this documentary film raises is also a good debate, especially since it is a political and social issue ...

The mention of Holocaust brings to mind probably the greatest agony in history that mankind has ever faced. It is agonizing to even imagine the world being revisited by the horrendous events between 1938 and 1945. More than six million people (most of them Jews) were murdered in a state-sponsored spree led by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party in Germany during the World War 2. The event of the Holocaust have been captured in several books and films each trying to capture the horrific memories of the events in the best way they know how. In the film Night ...

“Waiting For Superman”

About the Film
Waiting for Superman is an award winning documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim. The documentary film is about the current state of the United States public school system and the realities that both families and their children are facing amidst the failing standards of the country’s education system. The film follows the educational ambition of five children in which four are studying in a public school while the other one is enrolled in a parochial school. All of the five children share the same dream of going to college. However, that goal is far from being ...

1. The 2004 documentary Born Into Brothels follows documentarian Zana Briski's time spent among the prostitutes of Calcutta. She interviews these prostitutes, as well as their children, whom she teaches photography (and gives disposable cameras with which to take pictures). In this time, not only does she follow the trials and tribulations of prostitutes and women in Indian culture, but she also reveals new insights about the children of these prostitutes and how small their prospects for betterment are.2. I chose this documentary because I knew little about Indian culture, or how systemic the problem of prostitution was. I ...

In The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman, the chilling interviews Dr. Dietz conducted with Richard Kuklinski demonstrate a man with significant psychological damage, which led him to kill over two hundred people over the course of his life, through various and sadistic means. If one were to look at his condition from a Freudian perspective, it is easy to see that he has many psychosexual issues related to his mother. Growing up in a violent environment, with his mother beating him often and violently, Kuklinski learned that violence was the way to get what you wanted, leaving him in the latent period ...

Introduction

A documentary is a movie that attempts to present events, people and places in real life for purposes of instructing or maintaining historical records (Aitken). Documentaries are characterized by carefully chosen and arranged scenes just like movies. Unlike movies, documentaries are not scripted and the people in a documentary are not actors. In most cases, documentaries rely on voice-over narration to explain events in a given footage. In other cases, the story in the documentary is told through interviews with the people featured.

Documentary analysis

The 1929 film, Man with a Movie camera by Vertov Dziga fits the description of a documentary for several reasons. First, ...

One of the most interesting documentaries is The Square, which relates to the ongoing Egyptian state crisis. The documentary is directed by the Jehane Noujaim, who talks about the disaster that happened up to recently 2013. Much of the documentary covers the Egyptian revolution of 2011 although it is American based. Due to the creativeness in the movie, it has won different awards including three Emmy awards and nominated for various honors in the industry.
The Square Movie was released on January 17, 2013, and received a lot of media attention. Since that time, it still maintains one hundred ...

The title of the film is Good Hair. It is a documentary narrated by Chris Rock. The documentary is about the perspective that people have of good hair. He tries to find out the definition of good hair from society as a whole. He conducts interviews with men and women from different backgrounds. Housewives to celebrities are interviewed as he tries to get to the bottom of their definition of good hair.
This documentary was chosen for research due to the issues that are tackled superficially and deeply. The superficial issue that one might get at first glance is of a ...

What is the title of the film? What is it about?

The title of the film is Food, Inc. The film features agricultural content in the United States. If highlights the agribusiness across the United States. The paper relates corporate affairs and agriculture. It also provides an insight on the negativity of production on the society. The film comes with a conclusion that production of food via the agribusiness leads to the production of unhealthy foods. Additionally, the food is environmental friendly to both humans and animals. The film uses interviews from people to justify its objectives and claims.

Why did you choose this documentary to view? What did you expect to learn or experience from this film?

The reason for choosing this documentary is the fact that it addresses ...

The current documentary “Chasing Heroin” aired by Frontline PBS offers a glimpse on an array of issues aligned with heroin use and misuse. Precisely, the documentary showcases the manner in which heroin addicts struggles with the repercussions of heroin addiction. The documentary is based on confessions from heroin addicts, government officials, family members, and clinicians on pertinent issues regarding heroin addiction. From the documentary, it is evident that the lives of millions of populates are severely impacted by heroin addiction. The severity of heroin addiction is evident in cases where heroin addicts die painful deaths. A man featured in ...

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History stands witness, even today to the fact that that The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis to have ever hit the nations of the world. Nearly all the countries across the world bore the brunt of this economic crisis and were left to fend for themselves without the support of one another. There are varied timings of the origin of the Depression all over the world that fall in the 1930s to the 1940s. America however, was the worst victim of this recession as the ...

1.  Select which category [in parentheses] this documentary fits into and explain why you think it best fits that classification. Awareness/social concerns
The documentary film fits into the ‘awareness/social concerns’ because it encourages the viewer to think about social issues such as the possible outbreak of communicable or infectious diseases. While typhoid outbreaks were a thing in the past in countries such as the United States, there are other infectious diseases that raise public concerns.
2. Discuss at least three major themes within this documentary, using examples from the film to support your choice. Your discussion should consist of ...

The mysterious growth of the Chinese economy today had diverse effects on the social well-being of the country. The economic growth in the country failed to portray equal social development among the citizens. This fantastic colossal growth of the economy has impacted negatively on the social lives of the people in the country. Through globalization, today cultural crashes and the need to embrace the changes continuously affect the national development in a country (Williams, 2008). In the case of China, a communist country is trying to adapt to the capitalist world to sustain its development. With the integration of ...

Eye of the Beholder: Guilt and Politics in ‘The Thin Blue Line’

1. In her treatise, Patricia Aufderheide explains that documentaries offer a portrait of real life that seeks not to manipulate the material being presented (Aufderheide, 2007). The documentary generally puts forth some kind of analytical argument or story in a narrative flow. The Thin Blue Line meets those criteria, but pushes the boundaries of this kind of storytelling. In fact, Errol Morris’ 1988 film is one of the most interesting attempts to combine intensive interviews with interpretive imagery and staged recreations of the events in question. As one of the first documentaries to adopt what was, at the time, a hybrid approach, ...

“Slavery by another name”, the 90 minutes documentary which was aired on February 13, 2012, and directed by Sam Pollard, is an adaptation of the book by same (authored by Douglas Blackmon) name which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 (Pbs,"Slavery by another Name"). Like the book, this documentary has some very strong analytical insights on breaking the most popular misconception that the African- American (referred as ‘blacks’) were actually emancipated with the Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation of the year 1963. The documentary specifically works on the time span between the civil war and the World War II ...

The Coal Country documentary is a masterpiece. It entails a fascinating investigation of the environmental, societal, and political effects concerning coal mining in Appalachia. As a matter of fact, the film pays attention to the removal of the mountaintop (Boelte, 2015). It is well documented that mountaintop removal is a procedure where mountains are razed by explosives so that extractors and other agencies can reveal the coal exposed in mountain tops.
The film director has perfected his art as the documentary sends a strong environmental message vis-à-vis the damage caused by this type of exploration. The Coal Country ...

The documentary from the PBS and Frontline with the title Two American families, is presenting the ordinary and middle income families over the time period of 22 years. The documentary was released in the year 2013. The documentary wanted to present the reality of the American dreams to have a family, own a house and have a steady income with the possibility of retirement at older age. The efforts of two American families the Nuemanns and the Stanleys to succeed in two decades despite the hard work did not work out. It shows that despite the race all middle ...

The documentary, “Forks Over Knives” makes a compelling case in advocating for consumption of plant-based foods. It heavily criticizes animal-based foods and calls for its total elimination from our dietary consumption. It makes a convincing argument that most of the world’s chronic diseases could be averted by strictly following a vegetable or whole foods diet. In my opinion, a plant-based diet is healthier than processed foods. However, I disagree with the claim that animal-based foods ought to be banished from our meals. The human body needs animal-based foods such as omega 3and free-range eggs.
As seen in fork ...

The documentary She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry provides an in-depth look at the women’s lib movement of the mid to late 20th century. I liked the really positive and exuberant portrait of the many advances women made in the 1960s and 1970s when they got to fight for their rights. The best part was when the documentary shuttles around various parts of the country to find the various local battlegrounds of the past to see where these major battles were fought, like the legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade and Nixon’s national childcare bill ...

The Great Depression was a severe global economic meltdown that happened in the decade that preceded the Second World War. The time of the recession differed from country to country, but it was from 1930 till late 1930s and mid 1940s in some countries. The second film in the Great Depression Series by PBS, The Road to Rock Bottom, critically looks at the problems that faced farmers in United States before and during the Great Depression. The film examines the predicament of farmers, agricultural workers and sharecroppers. The focus is on the effects of harsh environmental factors such as drought ...

Miss Representation is a documentary film from 2011 directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom and it deals with the representation of women in the society and about the expectations that are thrown upon them. These women are supposed to look and behave in a certain way prescribed by the society and they are not allowed to have the freedom of mind and are not entitled to self-expression. There are roles which are women are supposed to be seen in and this kind of order in the society is not supposed to be violated by free-thinking women, not to mention feminists.
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Reader Response Based on Film and Readings- Pioneer Women in Medical Front

The book A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785-1812, was written by the historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in reference to the diary of an 18th century American midwife and healer, Martha Moore Ballard (1735-1812). The documentary film, The American Experience, was based on the Ulrich’s book. During the period of 3 decades (from 1785-1812), Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her life as a midwife and healer and housewife with children. Her records illustrate struggles and tragedies that she faced within her family and the society as a whole during ...

Sooner or later, all children go through a stage of adolescence, which begins with sexual maturation, and ends with the attainment of self-sufficiency and independence. This period is not easy both for the teenagers, and for their parents. Sometimes own mood, behavior and desires can cause confusion even to the teenager, and there is a cause for that. During adolescence, the brain structures undergo fundamental changes, and the large amounts of hormones affect the individual as a whole.

A magnetic resonance imager (MRI) allows the scientists to explore the features of the teenage brain structure and functioning. Exploring the brain, a neuroscientist Charles ...

The Empire’s New Clothes is a documentary film that portrays the inequality in terms of financial and political landscape that any society faces today. It is apparent that the documentary makes use of past records to present its arguments convincingly. In particular, the timing of the release of the film was perfect having been only a few weeks before the general election took place in the United Kingdom in 2015. Such timely release seems to be a deliberate effort by the producer to tap into the heated conversations and opinions that were already in circulation in the mass ...

Racial Discriminations in all parts of the world has become part of our society, and very little is being done to realize that racial difference is indeed a strength rather than a weakness for any country. The United States has long struggled with issues of race, and several unions have developed to fight for individual racial rights. The paper shall analyze the argument of race based on the White Student Union documentary.

The Central Argument

The documentary features a former Towson University student Matthew Heimbach, who fights for fair a treatment of the European American community, which he belongs. He claims that ...

Genre: Mockumentary

Director: Rob Reiner
Stars: Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer
Objective Analysis: (give a few examples and provide text to support your examples)
1. Visual component (such as the art direction, camera angles and movement, cinematography, lighting, visual style, etc.):
Filmed like a documentary, Spinal Tap uses handheld camera and talking head interviews to make the documentary part feel real. The filmmaking is straightforward to let the actors improvise.
2. Editing component (like the pacing, rhythm, transitions, etc.):
The film is fast-paced, and uses flashbacks and “archival footage” to flash back to the ...

- What is the title of the film, what (brief summary) is it about (subject, topic)?
The film is entitled Inside Job. A documentary film made in 2010, Inside Job garnered praise and recognition for its creative, accurate, and enlightening narrative of the 2008 economic crisis. The film traces the roots of the problem through an introductory example of Iceland, whose attempts to expand the economy through deregulation policies backfired – particularly on the financial sector. It is later explained that Iceland was not the only country who tried to use deregulation as a tactic and failed. The story ...

1. What is the title of the film, what (brief summary) is it about (subject, topic)?
The film that I chose to watch is Disney’s Oceans, which was released in 2010. This film is a documentary put out by the Disney Company that demonstrates ocean life. The filmmaker, Jaques Perrin, wanted to depict the mysterious life of the ocean and educate people about what happens beneath the water.2. Why did you choose this documentary to view? What did you expect to learn or experience from this film?I chose this documentary because I have always loved all Disney ...