Most Popular Documentary Movies
The Factual section contains a wide range of material across the whole spectrum of Non-fiction film. You will find here, films from the early Romanticism period, the Newsreel, Realist and Propagandist traditions, Cinéma vérité, Political documentary, Compilation films and modern documentaries.
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Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film by Russian director Dziga Vertov. This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, animations, and a self-reflexive storyline. »
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A Cold War public information film meant to put the fear of God into the citizens of the USA. Watching this, you can almost begin to comprehend the hysteria that surrounded the many false alarms and you begin to wonder if films like this - presumably made with all of the best intentions - aren't actually responsible for warping the minds of a generation of Americans. »
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The great Edward R. Murrow narrates this film for the U.S. Office of Civil Defense that seeks to educate its audience about the destructive power of nuclear weapons, to explain the associate phenomenon of nuclear radiation, and to assure the public that they will be safe as long as they follow proper procedures. Very much a time capsule of the attitudes of this era. »
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Academy Award winning documentary on the pivotal naval battle of the war in the Pacific. Filmed while the attack on Midway Island was underway, director John Ford was actually injured during filming. Ford weaves voiceover and music into the real footage of the battle, shaping the material to show the conflict as he saw it, and moulding these elements into a narrative »
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NASA documentary of the near-fatal Apollo 13 mission in 1972. Includes the onboard explosion and efforts by the ground crew and flight crew to troubleshoot the malfunction and design and implement contingency procedures to bring the crippled spacecraft home. »
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Presents the story of the first Moon landing in July 1969. Depicts the principal events of the mission, from the launching through the postrecovery activities of astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins. Through television, motion pictures, and still photography, the program provides an "eyewitness" perspective of the Apollo 11 mission. »
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This Oscar winning film is a war documentary produced by one of the Hollywood Colonels, William Wyler, who joined the Air Force Film unit and recorded the sights and sounds of the 25th and last bombing mission of a B 17 bomber known as the Memphis Belle, named after the girlfriend of the pilot. The Memphis Belle takes part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany. The dramatic 16 mm color film of actual battles was made by cinematographer First Lieutenant Harold J. Tannenbaum. »
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