Documentary was coined and first used by Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty’s Moana, documentary could be a television or a radio programme that is non-fiction which portrays reality and factused majorly for instruction or historical record.
The documentary genre has radically evolved in recent years and so it’s not a surprise that there may be some confusion about “what exactly is a documentary”. Documentaries are often used to reveal an unusual, interesting or unknown angle of a subject matter.
Strictly speaking, documentaries are non-fictional, “slice of life” factual works of art – and
sometimes known as cinema verity. For many years, as films became more narrative-based,
documentaries branched out and took many forms since their early beginnings – some of
which have been termed propagandistic or non-objective.
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