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Documenting reality

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Documentary has evolved from educational newsreels and public service announcements to the experimental cinéma vérité (‘truthful cinema’), docuseries and onli..

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Film and reality

United Kingdom, 1942
Similarity: 76%

Documentary: 1922 - 1939

United States, 1978
Similarity: 75%

Documentary

United States, 1978
Similarity: 75%

The Biography of the motion picture camera

France, 1947
Similarity: 74%

Arrival of film

Similarity: 74%

Cinema verite: defining the moment [Widescreen]

Canada, 1999
Similarity: 74%

Mikhail Kaufman in Dziga Vertov’s Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Man with a Movie Camera)

Russia, 1929
Similarity: 74%

Documentary: 1935 - 1955

United States, 1978
Similarity: 73%

The History of the cinema

United Kingdom, 1958
Similarity: 73%

Early film equipment

Similarity: 73%

Movies move people

United States, 1972
Similarity: 73%

The Movies story

United States, 1970
Similarity: 73%

Film making

Canada, 1974
Similarity: 73%

Albert and David Maysles filming Big Edie and Little Edie in Grey Gardens

United States, 1975
Similarity: 73%

Auguste and Louis Lumière

France, c. 1895
Similarity: 72%

Documenting Australia

Similarity: 72%

The Unique contribution

United States, 1959
Similarity: 72%

Visions of light

United States, 1992
Similarity: 72%
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