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(formerly Reality Film)

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Reviews

• A Doc A Week
• A Cold Day in D.C.: The Counter Inaugural
• Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film
• Buena Vista Social Club
• Devil's Playground
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• Feel Like Going Home
• Fired!
• Gunner Palace
• Hearts and Minds
• Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
• Lance Loud! A Death in an American Family
• Malkovich's Mail
• Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
• Metallica: This Monster Lives (book)
• Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
• Pioneers of Primetime
• Smothered
• The Soul of a Man
• Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
• Tell Them Who You Are
• The Aristocrats
• The Cutting Edge
• The War Room

Study

• 100 Documentaries to Check Out
• Critical Questions for Viewing Documentaries
• Documentary Conventions
• Documentary Definitions
• Documentary Traditions
• How Does a Documentary Get Defined?
• Four Fundamental Tendencies of Documentary
• Programs in Documentary
• Syllabus
  • Week 1: How Do We Define Documentary?
  • Week 2: Primitive Cinema, the Origins of Documentary, and Robert Flaherty
  • Week 3: Poetic Documentary and Dziga Vertov
  • Week 4: Depression-era Social Documentary and Propaganda Films
  • Week 5: John Grierson and The Documentary Film Movement
  • Week 6: Propaganda Films and World War II
  • Week 7: Remembering the Holocaust
  • Week 8: The Beginnings of Television and Documentary
  • Week 9: Cinema Verite and Jean Rouch
  • Week 10: Cinema Verite and the Manufacturing a President
  • Week 11: Observational Cinema and Frederick Wiseman
  • Week 12: Barbara Kopple and the Social Documentary
  • Week 13: Homosexuality and Documentary
  • Week 14: Documentary and Autobiography
  • Week 15: The Michael Moore Phenomenon
  • Week 16: Mockumentary
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My list for watching at least one documentary a week for an entire year