On Twitter, I recently posed three questions about documentary viewing: What’s the first documentary you remember ever seeing? What’s the first documentary that really impacted you, affected you in some way? How so? What is your favorite scene in a documentary? The answers ran the gamut. They included a who’s who of documentary directors, some…
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Critical Questions for Viewing Documentaries
In every film class I teach, I show at least one documentary. Titles I have shown include Roger & Me, The Thin Blue Line, and Hearts and Minds. Each semester I ask students what they think or know in general about documentaries. There are two running themes to the responses. One is that documentaries are…