Documentary Film
In addition to the links here, there are more Documentary films on our 'Films to watch' page, click on link below or navigate by director, country, genre or other tags/ categories on our 'Films to watch' page
FILM UCW - DOCUMENTARY FILMS
To see documentary films made by students from UCW please follow link below
Documentary Production tips
See Module reading list for books on Documentary Production. I will also add a few links to online articles here.
Documentaries we will look at include:
The Act of Killing (2013) - Joshua Oppenheimer
'City Symphony' Documentary films & Non Verbal Documentary
Patrick Keiller - London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997), and Robinson in Ruins (2010)
Early 'Poetic, Avant Garde & surrealist films
British Documentary Movement (1930's / 1940's) & [Free Cinema (1952 - (1963)
]6 [Michael Grigsby]7 & Rebekah Tolley - We Went To War
Investigative Journalism - John Pilger, Nick Broomfield, Michael Moore, Louis Theoroux
Tarnation (2003) Jonathan Caouette
Ghosts of Piramida (2012) Director- Andreas Koefoed. Featuring Efterkland
Errol Morris - Thin Blue Line (1988), The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
Werner Herzog - Grizzly Man (2005)
Man on a Wire (2008) - James Marsh
11'09"1 September 11 is a 2002 international film composed of 11 contributions from different filmmakers, each from a different country. Each gave their own vision of the events in New York City during the September 11 attacks, in a short film of 11 minutes, 9 seconds, and one frame.
Ken Loach (segment "United Kingdom")
This segment (above) features Pablo, a Chilean singer-songwriter exiled in London, writing a letter to the American people condemning the terrorist attacks and telling the story of Salvador Allende's government and the tragic consequences of Chile's own 9/11.
Also see:
Samira Makhmalbaf (segment "Iran"). In this segment, young Afghan schoolchildren discuss the Twin Towers' collapse. Makhmalbaf has said, "When they asked me to talk about 11 September, I thought the whole world had representation except for Afghanistan, so I decided I would be their representative and tell it from their point of view. I didn't want to make it too judgemental. I wanted it to be innocent, through the eyes of the children."[1]
and Sean Penn's (USA) film.