In 2002, her documentary Timor Lorosae received the Audience Award at the Recife Film Festival.

Another criticism, noted by Media Education Foundation's documentary Captive Audience, is that very little time is dedicated to actual news and the majority of the programming is soft, sensationalistic " fluff " with corporate marketing and PR tie-ins to promote products and services, arguing that it further corrupts the school setting with consumerism.

South African director Sharon Farr's documentary, Love, Communism, Revolution & Rivonia – Bram Fischer ’ s Story, won the Encounters Film Festival Audience Award for Best South African Documentary in August 2007.

The film won many of these, including the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary / Non-fiction film at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, Senior Programmer's Pick at the SXSW Film Festival Awards, and three Sundance Film Festival awards in 2000: the Audience Award for best documentary, the cinematography award for documentary, and the Freedom of Expression Award.

* documentary Audience Award: Throw Down Your Heart directed by Sascha Paladino

This film received the Audience Award for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

They appear in the musical documentary Big Easy Express, directed by Emmett Malloy, being made of the trip which premiered March 2012 at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival ( SXSW Film ) in Austin, Texas -- winning the Headliner Audience Award.

* They appear in the musical documentary Big Easy Express, directed by Emmett Malloy, being made of The Railroad Revival Tour, which premiered March 2012 at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival ( SXSW Film ) in Austin, Texas — winning the Headliner Audience Award.

The documentary film Man on Wire by UK director James Marsh, about Petit's 1974 WTC performance, won both the World Cinema Jury and Audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival 2008.

In 2008, documentary filmmaker, Joanne Caputo, winner of the PBS Independent Lens Audience Award for her 2005 “ On A Roll: Family, Disability and the American Dream ,” self-published “ Margaret Garner: Diversity and Depth of Love .” The non-fiction two-book manuscript includes a memoir, in which Caputo describes her paranormal experiences with Margaret Garner and a claim of being Garner ’ s reincarnated murdered daughter.

The documentary was produced with the support of French television Antenne 2 and won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the 1984 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

In March 2012 the PBS network broadcast a feature length documentary about the life and music of Don McLean called " American Troubadour " produced by 4-time Emmy Award winning film maker Jim Brown.

He enlisted in the Army during World War I after graduating college, and again in World War II at the peak of his career, when he directed 11 documentary war films for the U. S. government's Why We Fight series, winning an Academy Award for one and a Distinguished Service Medal when the war ended.

Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary / concert movies.

Flaherty was one of the Directors of The Titan: Story of Michelangelo ( 1950 ), which won an Academy Award for documentary feature.

* BAFTA presents the Robert J. Flaherty Award for best one-off documentary.

Two documentary films by Bert Haanstra for which his father wrote the scenarios were nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, one won a Golden Bear for Short Film.

It won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 1985 and the recording process was filmed as a documentary.

The documentary film of the expedition, itself entitled Kon-Tiki, won an Academy Award in 1951.

He has also written and presented several documentary series including Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, which saw him explore his mental illness and earned an Emmy Award.

The group won the Governor's Award for Community Action, released an album of music, performed at the Sylvan Amphitheater in Washington, D. C. on July 4, 1974, made numerous television appearances, provided the soundtrack for an Ohio Department Of Natural Resources public service film titled Sweet Ohio, were designated as the official Bicentennial Touring Group for the state of Ohio, and were the subject of a documentary film during their four year run.

The first long-form documentary to be so edited was the HBO program Earth and the American Dream, which went on to win a National Primetime Emmy Award for Editing in 1993.

* The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, official website of the documentary film ( Nominated for Academy Award 2010 – Best Documentary Feature )

In 2002, she appeared in the documentary film Searching for Debra Winger and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest appearance on the television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

* The 1975 Academy Award nominated documentary The California Reich depicts members of the American Nazi Party living in Tracy.

His music was featured in the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, narrated by Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman.

In March 2005, Stealing a Nation was awarded Britain's most prestigious documentary prize, the Royal Television Society Award.

The strike was chronicled in the film American Dream, which won the Academy Award for best documentary in 1990.

He originally intended to be a documentary film-maker, and directed Legendary Champions in 1968, which was nominated as a documentary Academy Award.

The events before and during this bout are depicted in the Academy Award winning documentary, When We Were Kings.

* Nine from Little Rock, an Academy Award winning documentary by Charles Guggenheim, commissioned by the USIA

* the DVD Wings For Wheels, a lengthy documentary on the making of the album, which later won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video

Wim Wenders directed the documentary film of the same name ( 1999 ), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.

Wim Wenders, who had previously directed 1984's Paris Texas, directed a documentary film of the musicians involved, Buena Vista Social Club ( 1999 ), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.

Douglas was also the subject of a 1986 National Film Board of Canada documentary Tommy Douglas: Keeper of the Flame, which received the Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series.

information on foreign and domestic import duties and regulations, licensing, investments, and establishing of branch representatives or plants abroad, and documentary requirements concerning export shipments and arrangements for payment.

Schools and community groups turn to the headquarters film library for documentary, art, and experimental films to show at libraries that sponsor local programs, and to organizations in member communities.

There seems to be an unfortunate assumption that an hour of Chicago-style jazz in prime evening time, for example, could not be justified without the trimmings of a portentous documentary.

The cartoonist visited John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their 1969 Bed-In for Peace in Montreal, and their testy exchange later appeared in the documentary film Imagine: John Lennon ( 1988 ).

Benny Andersson also wrote the film score for the 2012 documentary Palme about Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

During the 1960s, De Palma began making a living producing documentary films, notably The Responsive Eye, a 1966 movie about The Responsive Eye op-art exhibit curated by William Seitz for Museum of Modern Art in 1965.

for instance, there is a sequence where you are obviously watching a ridiculous documentary and you are told that and you are aware of it, but it still sucks you in.

In 1941, the BPA hired Oklahoma folksinger Woody Guthrie to write songs for a documentary film promoting the benefits of hydropower.

Some sources say he used it as a base for his raids on shipping, yet there is no documentary evidence for this assertion.

Some tracks and demos from the album ( initially planned for release in 2008 ) were leaked on the internet in 2006, and a documentary entitled The Return of Courtney Love, detailing the making of the album, aired on the British television network in the fall of that year.

* Narrated and appeared on-camera for the 2005 PBS documentary Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World.

After working as assistant director on Resnais's Night and Fog in 1955, Marker made Sunday in Peking, a short documentary " film essay " that would characterize Marker's unique film style for most of his career.

After working on the commentary for Resnais ' film Le mystère de l ' atelier quinze in 1957, Marker continued to form his own cinematic style with the feature documentary Letter from Siberia.

La Solitude du chanteur de fond is a one-hour documentary about Marker's friend Yves Montand's benefit concert for Chilean refugees.

** Note: Marker helped produce and contributed to the screenplay for this, perhaps the greatest of all documentary films ( Film Comment ).

These humble scenes deal with simple, everyday activities, yet they also have functioned as a source of documentary information about a level of French society not hitherto considered a worthy subject for painting.

Gibson later commented on the origin of the term in the 2000 documentary No Maps for These Territories:

A ' documentary film ' was originally shot on film stock — the only medium available — but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video, made as a television program or released for screening in cinemas.

In popular myth, the word ' documentary ' was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana ( 1926 ), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by " The Moviegoer " ( a pen name for Grierson ).

Grierson's principles of documentary were that cinema's potential for observing life could be exploited in a new art form ; that the " original " actor and " original " scene are better guides than their fiction counterparts to interpreting the modern world ; and that materials " thus taken from the raw " can be more real than the acted article.

" Others further state that a documentary stands out from the other types of non-fiction films for providing an opinion, and a specific message, along with the facts it presents.

Many of the generic forms of documentary, for example the biopic or profile ; or the observational piece.

In 1919, Vertov compiled newsreel footage for his documentary Anniversary of the Revolution ; in 1921 he compiled History of the Civil War.

During discovery, Lewis produced articles, promotional materials, documentary evidence and an interview recorded at the Akron Art Institute following the premiere of In the Beginning was the End in which Mothersbaugh and other band members credited Lewis with developing the theory of de-evolution, and the band quickly settled for an undisclosed sum.