Documentary film

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title: Documentary film
text: A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", briefly lasted for one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolve
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description: Nonfictional motion picture
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film
date created: 2001-10-21T20:46:43Z
date modified: 2024-09-06T05:47:41Z
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