Early Experimental & Poetic Documentaries
Reading
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/deep-focus/essay-film
Le Retour A La Raison by Man Ray (1923)
A Propos de Nice (Jean Vigo, 1930)
Las Hurdes, Land without bread. (Luis Bunuel, 1933)
Rien Que Les Heures (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1926)
Other Examples:
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann, 1927)
Rain (Joris Ivens, 1929)
Turksib (Victor Turin,1929)
Song of Ceylon (Basil Wright, 1934)
The Plow That Broke the Plains (Pare Lorentz, 1936)
The River (Pare Lorentz, 1937)
The City (Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke, 1939)