Documentary film

Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional.

Literature

• Documentary Film Bibliography (via UC Berkeley)
• Erik Barnouw, Documentary. A History of the Non-Fiction Film, Oxford University Press 1993 - still a useful introduction
• Julianne Burton (ed.), The social documentary in Latin America, Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press 1990
• Bill Nichols, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, Indiana University Press 1991
• Paul Rotha, Documentary diary; an informal history of the British documentary film, 1928-1939, New York, Hill and Wang 1973
• Janet Walker and Diane Waldeman, Feminism and Documentary, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1999.
• Markus Nornes, Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era through Hiroshima,University of Minnesota Press 2003
• Jim Leach (ed.), Candid eyes : essays on Canadian documentaries, University of Toronto Press, 2003