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.

* Docudrama: the difference between a docudrama and a documentary is that in a documentary it uses real people to describe history or current events ; in a docudrama it uses professionally trained actors to play the roles in the current event, that is " dramatized " a bit.

The 1978 British comedy film The Rutles was done in the style of rock documentary which treated the fake band The Rutles as if they were a real band.

The 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig was an elaborate mix of real newsreel footage from the 1930s and fake footage mixed together with fake interviews with real actors playing themselves as well as actors playing roles to tell the story of the Allen character and presented as a documentary.

The 1994 Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump while not presented as a documentary of a real character, does contain several sequences that feature the Hanks character inserted into archival newsreel footage of John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Apollo 11 astronauts, and others, to realistic effect.

When the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project was released, the extensive marketing campaign claimed it to be a real documentary, compiled from footage discovered abandoned in a forest.

The film is presented as a BBC television documentary which includes fake television ads for racist products which at the end of the movie are revealed to have been real at some point in the 20th century.

In the 2007 film documentary Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who, Daltrey and Townshend state that Moon had a real talent for dressing up as a variety of various characters and embodying them.

Such footage was either of a real event and shot for documentary purposes, or the assassins filmed a murder to use the record for political purposes.

Kärlekens språk ( The Language of Love ) was an informative documentary about sex and sexual techniques that featured the first real act of sex in a mainstream film, and inevitably it caused intense debate around the world.

* 1969: Director Marco Ferreri's film Dillinger Is Dead includes documentary footage of real John Dillinger as well as newspaper clips.

* Chasing Crusoe, multimedia documentary explores the novel and real life history of Selkirk.

According to Diane Bornstein, one way to reconcile the differences between the references to courts of love in the literature, and the lack of documentary evidence in real life, is that they were like literary salons or social gatherings, where people read poems, debated questions of love, and played word games of flirtation.

** The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a 1944 documentary film about the real aircraft and crew on its final mission

A dramatic mockumentary ( sometimes referred to as docufiction ) should not be confused with docudrama, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events.

Many scenes featured documentary recordings of real conversations in place of scripted dialogue — this too would become a signature of Bakshi's.

However, unlike docufiction – which is essentially a documentary filmed in real time, incorporating some fictional elements – docudrama is filmed at a time subsequent to the events it portrays.

Michael Moore gives brief focus to this incident in his documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, who then proceeds to insinuate that Reagan was merely chosen a frontman ( or " sheriff ") for the real power behind the throne, among them Regan, who at the time was the Chairman of Merrill Lynch and who Reagan appointed as Treasury Secretary and then Chief of Staff.

Stylistically, Cleo from 5 to 7 borders documentary and fiction as La Pointe Courte had, which is regularly noticed as the film is to represent real time, between 5pm and 7pm.

" At some point during one of Fleming's visits to Jamaica he met with the real Bond and his wife as shown in a made for DVD documentary about Fleming.

Further on in the documentary, referring to the Afghan Arabs Bearden said: " The only times that I ran into any real trouble in Afghanistan was when I ran into ' these guys ' - You know there'd be kind of a ' moment ' or two that would look a little bit like the bar scene in Star Wars, ya know.

* Britain's Real Monarch-In the Channel 4 documentary Earls or Countesses from # 7 to # 15 are considered the real monarchs of England.

His pleograph film camera has been patented already before the Lumière brothers ' invention and he is credited as the author of the earliest surviving Polish documentary titled Ślizgawka w Łazienkach ( Skating-rink in the Royal Baths ), as well as the first short narrative films Powrót birbanta ( Rake's return home ) and Przygoda dorożkarza ( Cabman's Adventure ), both created in 1902.

* House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is a work of fiction revolving around the discovery of a manuscript critiquing a documentary called The Navidson Record and its effects on both its author and editor.

Crow wrote a foreword for the book Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips, author Kris Carr's book that was based on her 2007 documentary film Crazy Sexy Cancer.

The extras feature color production footage shot by Chaplin ’ s half-brother Sydney, deleted barbershop sequence from Chaplin ’ s 1919 film Sunnyside, barbershop sequence from Sydney Chaplin ’ s 1921 film King, Queen, Joker, and The Tramp and the Dictator ( 2001 ), Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft ’ s documentary paralleling the lives of Chaplin and Hitler, including interviews with author Ray Bradbury, director Sidney Lumet, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and others.

In 2004, filmmaker Donna Read and neopagan author and activist Starhawk released a collaborative documentary film about the life and work of Gimbutas, Signs Out of Time.

* Shelby Steele ( born 1946 ), American author, columnist, documentary film maker and academic

* Osa Johnson, Adventurer, author, and documentary filmmaker.

* Food, Inc. ( film ) — a documentary film featuring the author talking about similar subject matter

Harris is also the author of various children's books, a side career he stumbled into the mid-1980s: he returned to journalism because he could not find funding for a documentary he wanted to make.

She featured as the subject of a documentary called A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde that shows Lorde as an author, poet, human rights activist, feminist, and lesbian.

* 7-Johan van der Keuken, 62, Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer.

She also did voice-over work on TV and films including the voice of Southern author Margaret Mitchell in the documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind in 1988.

* 2009: In the documentary Tell Them Anything You Want, author / illustrator Maurice Sendak tells interviewer Spike Jonze that he has been obsessed with the case of the Lindbergh baby since he was 2 years old.

Henri La Fontaine was the author of a number of legal handbooks and a documentary history of international arbitration:

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

" Conspiracy author Barr McClellan, interviewed in the documentary, complained that although the historians examined the evidence, they did not interview him or Turner.

This was followed by Nobody Cried When The Trains Pulled Out, a documentary about the evacuation of children from major British cities during World War 2 that included champion boxer Henry Cooper, actor Derek Nimmo and author Ben Wicks.

In July 2011, HBO Sports premiered The Curious Case of Curt Flood, an in-depth documentary account of Flood's personal life and career that features dozens of interviewees, including Flood biographer Brad Snyder, author of 2007's A Well-Paid Slave.

Steve Paikin ( born June 9, 1960 ) is a Canadian journalist, author, and documentary producer at TVOntario ( TVO ).

****** Allan Forbes, Jr., author and documentary filmmaker

Mark Goodall, author of Sweet & Savage: The World Through the Documentary Film Lens, and David Slater and David Kerekes, authors of Killing for Culture: An Illustrated History of Death Film from Mondo to Snuff, have also suggested that Deodato was attempting to comment on the documentary works of Climati with his film.

* In July 1993 Vadim Kozin told his story, sang and played his piano probably for the last time in the documentary on the Gulag in the far east of Siberia GOUD Vergeten in Siberië aka GOLD Lost in Siberia www. imdb. com by Dutch author Gerard Jacobs and filmmaker Theo Uittenbogaard

In 2002, Mossman was the subject of a documentary film by Mark Moskowitz, Stone Reader, ( ISBN 156730334x ) which chronicled the director's attempt to resuscitate the acclaimed book and speak to its seemingly vanished author.