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Making a Scene in Documentary Film (2023)
by Maxine Trump
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
India Retold (2023)
Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India
Dir. Rajesh James
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Documentary
> Other books on the subject of Documentary:
The Oxford Handbook of American Documentary (2025)
Dir. Joshua Glick and Patricia Aufderheide
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Interactive Documentary Form (2025)
Aesthetics, Practice and Research
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Documentary Audit (2025)
Listening and the Limits of Accountability
by Pooja Rangan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Stories Make the World (2025)
Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary
by Stephen Most
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration on Film and Television, Volume 1 (2025)
Ernest Shackleton
by John Atkins
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration on Film and Television, Volume 2 (2025)
Scott and Amundsen
by John Atkins
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Women and Global Documentary (2025)
Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century
Dir. Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh Warren
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Between Reality and Documentary (2025)
A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Representation of Perpetrators in Global Documentary Film (2025)
Dir. Fernando Canet
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Public Information Films (2024)
British Government Film Units, 1930-52
by Alan Harding
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe (2024)
Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space
by Lucie Cesálková, Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Perrine Val and Paolo Villa
Subject: Genre > Documentary
American Masculinities in Contemporary Documentary Film (2024)
Up Close Behind the Mask
by Sara Martín
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Crafting Contemporary Documentaries and Docuseries for Global Screens (2024)
Docu-mania
by Phoebe Hart
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Aesthetics in the Long 1960s in Eastern Europe and Beyond (2023)
Dir. Clemens Gnther and Matthias Schwartz
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Movies on a Mission (2023)
American Protestants and the Foreign Missionary Film, 1906–1956
Subject: Genre > Documentary
My University of the World (2023)
Adventures of an International Film & Media Maker
by Neill McKee
Subject: Genre > Documentary
A Medium Seen Otherwise (2023)
Photography in Documentary Film
by Roger Hallas
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Political Camerawork (2023)
Documentary and the Lasting Impact of Reenacting Historical Trauma
by D. Andy Rice
Subject: Genre > Documentary
How Documentaries Went Mainstream (2023)
A History, 1960-2022
by Nora Stone
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2023)
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Mapping the Rockumentary (2023)
Images of Sound and Fury
Dir. Gunnar Iversen and Scott MacKenzie
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Constructions of the Real (2023)
Intersections of Documentary-based Film Practice and Theory
Dir. Christine Rogers, Kim Munro and Liz Burke
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Uncovering Memory (2023)
Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina
by Tanja Sakota
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary in the Age of COVID (2023)
Dir. Dafydd Sills-Jones and Pietari Kääpä
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Animating Truth (2022)
Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century
by Nea Ehrlich
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa (2022)
Dir. Viola Shafik
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics (2022)
French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Men, War and Film (2022)
The Calling Blighty Films of World War II
by Steve Hawley
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Screening Nature and Nation (2022)
The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974
Subject: Genre > Documentary
What Is Non-fiction Cinema? (2022)
On the Very Idea of Motion Picture Communication
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Radioactive Documentary (2022)
Filming the Nuclear Environment after the Cold War
by Helen Hughes
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Kill the Documentary (2022)
A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Interactive Documentary (2022)
Decolonizing Practice-Based Research
Dir. Kathleen M. Ryan and David Staton
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary's Expanded Fields (2022)
New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary
by Jihoon Kim
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Filming History from Below (2022)
Microhistorical Documentaries
by Efrén Cuevas
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Labour in a Single Shot (2021)
Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki's Global Video Project
Dir. Roy Grundmann, Peter Schwartz and Gregory Williams
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Ecology Documentaries (2021)
Their Function and Value Seen Through the Lens of Doughnut Economics
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Telling Migrntt Stories (2021)
Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film
Dir. Esteban E. Loustaunau and Lauren E. Shaw
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Cinema on the Front Line (2021)
British Soldiers and Cinema in the First World War
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Radical Documentary and Global Crises (2021)
Militant Evidence in the Digital Age
by Ryan Watson
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Reclaiming Popular Documentary (2021)
by Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Beyond Bias (2021)
Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria
by Scott Krzych
Subject: Genre > Documentary
No Power Without an Image (2020)
Icons Between Photography and Film
by Libby Saxton
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm (2020)
Cinema, Television, and the Archive
by Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick and Mark Williams
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Story Movements (2020)
How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Perpetrator Cinema (2020)
Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
by Raya Morag
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Possible South (2020)
Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Open Space New Media Documentary (2019)
A Toolkit for Theory and Practice
by Patricia R. Zimmermann and Helen De Michiel
Subject: Genre > Documentary
A Visual History of HIV/AIDS (2019)
Exploring The Face of AIDS film archive
Dir. Elisabet Björklund and Mariah Larsson
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos (2019)
Dir. Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Toward a Philosophy of the Documentarian (2019)
A Prolegomenon
by Dan Geva
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Drawn from Life (2018)
Issues and Themes in Animated Documentary Cinema
Dir. Jonathan Murray and Nea Ehrlich
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Critical Mass (2018)
Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave
by Steven Ungar
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Documentary Filmmaker's Roadmap (2018)
A Practical Guide to Planning, Production and Distribution
by Maxine Trump
Subject: Genre > Documentary
American Music Documentary (2018)
Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology
Subject: Genre > Documentary
American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age (2018)
Depictions of War in Burns, Moore, and Morris
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Female Agency and Documentary Strategies (2018)
Subjectivities, Identity and Activism
Dir. Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Female Authorship and the Documentary Image (2018)
Theory, Practice and Aesthetics
Dir. Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Immediations (2017)
The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
by Pooja Rangan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film (2017)
Dir. Ian Aitken
Subject: Genre > Documentary
I-Docs (2017)
The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary
Dir. Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi and Mandy Rose
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Celluloid War Memorials (2016)
The British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Great War
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Philosophy of Documentary Film (2016)
Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth
Dir. David LaRocca
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documenting the World (2016)
Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
Dir. Gregg Mitman and Kelley Wilder
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Across the World with the Johnsons (2016)
Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century
by Prue Ahrens, Lamont Lindstrom and Fiona Paisley
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Celluloid Pueblo (2016)
Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Projecting Race (2016)
Postwar America, Civil Rights, and Documentary Film
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Documentary Diaries (2016)
Working Experiences of a Non-Fiction Filmmaker
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Speaking Truths with Film (2016)
Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary
by Bill Nichols
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Documentary Film Reader (2016)
History, Theory, Criticism
Dir. Jonathan Kahana
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Regarding the Real (2016)
Cinema, Documentary, and the Visual Arts
by Des O'Rawe
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Governing Visions of the Real (2016)
The National Film Unit and Griersonian Documentary Film in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Post-1990 Documentary (2015)
Reconfiguring Independence
Dir. Camille Deprez and Judith Pernin
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documenting Cityscapes (2015)
Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Green Documentary (2014)
Environmental Documentary in the 21st Century
by Helen Hughes
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documenting the Documentary (2013)
Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition
Dir. Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski
Subject: Genre > Documentary
American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary (2013)
The Cambridge Turn
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Education in the School of Dreams (2013)
Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Music Documentary (2013)
Acid Rock to Electropop
Dir. Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar and Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film (2013)
Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Killer Images (2013)
Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence
Dir. Joram ten Brink and Joshua Oppenheimer
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Cinema of Me (2012)
The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary
Dir. Alisa Lebow
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Playing to the Camera (2012)
Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema
by Thomas Cohen
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Creative Documentary (2011)
Theory and Practice
by Wilma De Jong, Jerry Rothwell and Erik Knudsen
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Right to Play Oneself (2011)
Looking Back on Documentary Film
by Thomas Waugh
Subject: Genre > Documentary
No Other Way to Tell It (2011)
Docudrama on Film and Television
by Derek Paget
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Crafting Truth (2010)
Documentary Form and Meaning
by Louise Spence and Vinicius Navarro
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Counter-Archive (2010)
Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
by Paula Amad
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Challenge for Change (2010)
Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada
by Thomas Waugh, Michael Brendan Baker, Ezra Winton and Michael Brendan Baker
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Films that Work (2009)
Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media
Dir. Vinzenz Hediger and Patrick Vonderau
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Reel Nature (2009)
America's Romance with Wildlife on Film
by Gregg Mitman
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Three Documentary Filmmakers (2009)
Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch
Dir. William Rothman
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Chavez (2009)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised:A Case Study of Politics and the Media
by Rod Stoneman
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Haunted Images (2008)
Film, Ethics, Testimony, and the Holocaust
by Libby Saxton
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Projecting Migration (2008)
Transcultural Documentary Practice, includes DVD-ROM
Dir. Alan Grossman and Áine O'Brien
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Films of Fact (2008)
A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television
by Timothy Boon
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary (2008)
Dir. Thomas W. Benson and Brian J. Snee
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Truth or Dare (2008)
Art and Documentary
Dir. Gail Pearce and Cahal McLaughlin
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Mining the Home Movie (2007)
Excavations in Histories and Memories
by Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Direct Cinema (2007)
Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Projecting Canada (2007)
Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board
by Zoe Druick
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documenting Gay Men (2007)
Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Imagining Reality (2006)
the Faber Book of Documentary
Dir. Mark Cousins and Kevin Macdonald
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Docufictions (2005)
Essays on the Intersection of Documentary and Fictional Filmmaking
Dir. Gary D. Rhodes and John Parris Springer
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Candid Eyes (2003)
Essays on Canadian Documentaries
Dir. Jim Leach and Jeannette Sloniowski
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Nfb Kids (2002)
Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989
by Brian J. Low
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Faking It (2001)
Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality
by Craig Hight and Jane Roscoe
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Struggles for Representation (2000)
African American Documentary Film and Video
Dir. Phyllis Rauch Klotman and Janet K. Cutler
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (1997)
A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor
Subject: Genre > Documentary
An Introduction to Television Documentary (1997)
Confronting Reality
by Richard Kilborn and John Izod
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Rhetoric and representation in nonfiction film (1997)
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Picturing Casablanca (1994)
Portraits of Power in a Modern City
by Susan Ossman
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Innovation in Ethnographic Film (1993)
From Innocence to Self-Consciousness, 1955-1985
by Peter Loizos
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Representing Reality (1992)
Issues and Concepts in Documentary
by Bill Nichols
Subject: Genre > Documentary
> Other books related to Documentary:
Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries (2025)
The Contours of Commemoration
Subject: Genre > Historical films
A Guide to (Short) Documentary Filmmaking (2025)
Creating Artful Short Documentary Films
Screened Encounters (2025)
The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990
Dir. Caroline Moine
Subject: Festivals
The New Russian Documentary (2025)
Reclaiming Reality in the Age of Authoritarianism
Dir. Masha Shpolberg and Anastasia Kostina
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
The Documentarian (2024)
The Way to a Successful and Creative Professional Life in the Documentary Business
by Roger Nygard
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
Listening to Others (2024)
Eduardo Coutinho's Documentary Cinema
Dir. Natalia Brizuela and Krista Brune
Subject: Director > Eduardo Coutinho
Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America (2024)
Dir. Antonio Traverso and Kristi Wilson
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Kartemquin Films (2024)
Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy
Resistance in Indian Documentary Film (2024)
Aesthetics, Culture and Practice
Dir. Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray
Jürgen Böttcher and Documentary Film (2024)
Subject: Director > Jürgen Böttcher
Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2023)
A Docalogue
Dir. Jaimie Baron and Kristen Fuhs
Subject: One Film > Summer of Soul
Tiger King (2023)
Murder, Mayhem and Madness: A Docalogue
Dir. Jaimie Baron and Kristen Fuhs
Subject: One Film > Tiger King (TV Series)
Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers (2023)
Beyond Representation
Dir. Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang and Alexie Tcheuyap
Cinematic Journeys in Latin America (2023)
Geography Through the Lens of Exploration and Discovery Films
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Truth in Visual Media (2023)
Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics
Dir. Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli
Subject: Theory
Voyages of Discovery (2023)
The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman, revised and expanded edition
Subject: Director > Frederick Wiseman
Challenging the Narrative (2023)
Documentary Film as Participatory Practice in Conflict Situations
Entering the Frame (2023)
Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
Subject: Director > Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution (2023)
Documentary Film Esthetics in the Middle East and North Africa
by Viola Shafik
Subject: Countries > Middle East
Documentary in Finland (2023)
History, Practice and Policy
Martin Scorsese's Documentary Histories (2022)
Migrations, Movies, Music
Subject: Director > Martin Scorsese
A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film (2022)
From Nationalism to Protest
Alanis Obomsawin (2022)
Lifework
Dir. Richard William Hill and Hila Peleg
Subject: Director > Alanis Obomsawin
I Am Not Your Negro (2022)
A Docalogue
Dir. Jaimie Baron and Kristen Fuhs
Subject: One Film > I Am Not Your Negro
William Greaves (2021)
Filmmaking as Mission
Dir. Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Subject: Director > William Greaves
Documentary in Wales (2021)
Dir. Dafydd Sills-Jones and Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Return to the Land of the Head Hunters (2020)
Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
Dir. Brad Evans, Aaron Glass and Bill Holm
Subject: One Film > In the Land of the Head Hunters
Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil (2019)
Cinematic Archives of the Present
'My' Self on Camera (2018)
First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China
Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers (2018)
Independence in Practice
Activist Documentary Film in Pakistan (2018)
The Emergence of a Cinema of Accountability
by Rahat Imran
Subject: Countries > South Asia
Documentary Film in India (2017)
An Anthropological History
New Chinese-Language Documentaries (2017)
Ethics, Subject and Place
by Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang
Negotiating Dissidence (2017)
The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary
Subject: Countries > Middle East
The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia (2016)
Dir. Ian Aitken and Camille Deprez
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
In Whose Eyes (2016)
The Memoir of a Vietnamese Filmmaker in War and Peace
by Tran Van Thuy and Le Thanh Dung
Subject: Director > Tran Van Thuy
The Conscience of Cinema (2016)
The Works of Joris Ivens 1926-1989
by Thomas Waugh
Subject: Director > Joris Ivens
Mediating Mobility (2016)
Visual Anthropology in the Age of Migration
by Steffen Köhn
Subject: Sociology
Film and Reform (2016)
John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement
by Ian Aitken
Subject: Director > John Grierson
DV-Made China (2015)
Digital Subjects and Social Transformations After Independent Film
by Zhang Zhen and Angela Zito
Michael Moore and the Rhetoric of Documentary (2015)
Dir. Thomas W. Benson and Brian J. Snee
Subject: Director > Michael Moore
Making Asian American Film and Video (2015)
History, Institutions, Movements
by Jun Okada
Subject: Economics
The Danish Directors 3 (2014)
Dialogues on the New Danish Documentary Cinema
Dir. Mette Hjort, Ib Bondebjerg and Eva Novrup Redvall
Ferocious Reality (2012)
Documentary According to Werner Herzog
by Eric Ames
Subject: Director > Werner Herzog
Learning with the Lights Off (2012)
Educational Film in the United States
Dir. Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron and Dan Streible
Subject: Sociology
The Projection of Britain (2011)
A History of the GPO Film Unit
Dir. James G. Mansell and Scott Anthony
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Humphrey Jennings and British Documentary Film (2011)
A Re-assessment
Subject: Director > Humphrey Jennings
The Diaries of Frank Hurley (2011)
1912-1941
Dir. Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee
Subject: Director > Frank Hurley
Recording Memories from Political Violence (2010)
A Film-maker's Journey
The Adventure of the Real (2010)
Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema
by Paul Henley
Subject: Director > Jean Rouch
Australian Post-War Documentary Film (2008)
An Arc of Mirrors
Forest of Pressure (2007)
Ogawa Shinsuke And Postwar Japanese Documentary
Subject: Director > Ogawa Shinsuke
Five Films by Frederick Wiseman (2006)
Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing
Dir. Barry Keith Grant
Subject: Director > Frederick Wiseman
Pierre Perrault and the poetic documentary (2004)
Dir. David. Clandfield
Subject: Director > Pierre Perrault
Introduction to Documentary Production (2003)
A Guide for Media Students
Dir. Searle Kochberg
Subject: Technique > All techniques
Reality Fictions (2002)
The Films of Frederick Wiseman
by Thomas W. Benson and Carolyn Anderson
Subject: Director > Frederick Wiseman
Science Is Fiction (1999)
The Films of Jean Painlevé
Dir. Andy Masaki Bellows and Marina McDougall
Subject: Director > Jean Painlevé
Documentary Dilemmas (1991)
Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies
by Carolyn Anderson and Thomas W. Benson
Subject: One Film > Titicut Follies
The Vision of Robert Flaherty (1988)
The Artist As Myth and Filmmaker
Subject: Director > Robert Flaherty
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