Hitler understood the power of documentaries and used the works of Leni Riefenstahl to convince non-Jewish Germans of his agenda. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 broke several boxoffice records for a documentary film in 2004, an election year, and triggered much critique and debate from all ...
This is a tough question to answer, because I feel I’m always learning and changing to see if new processes will work better for me. What I begin with is extensive research—biographies, journals, nonfiction books about specific subjects I need to learn more about, documentaries, travel. Fo...
The CONUS Archive continues to be a “go to” resource for video and footage licensing for True Crime series, news programming, documentaries, caught on tape shows as well as many other kinds of media productions. New content is routinely added as we continue to uncover footage from our curre...
The production of documentaries was stimulated by World War II. The Nazi government of wartime Germany used the nationalized film industry to produce propaganda documentaries. The American director Frank Capra presented the Why We Fight (1942–45) series for the U.S. Army Signal Corps; Great Brit...
These reconstructions have had a considerable impact worldwide thanks to the documentaries on the topic and to the fact that, for decades, they were conceived as real research or technological and anthropological studies, despite the con- troversial views they elicited about their authenticity or ...