Documentary Film
What is documentary filmmaking? In early 20th century a lot of operators started featuring nonfiction items – calling them documentaries, expedition films, interest films, after 1907 – travelogues. (Barnouw, 1993) The first documentary films in the United states and France were either short news reports, records of important meetings and events, or travelogues that didn’t have any original story-telling, script or staging. Grierson, one of the first documentary filmmakers, defines it as "creative treatment of actuality".
Documentary is one of fundamental genres of filmmaking. Filmmakers are trying to explain or show really important social problems and dilemmas that ...
