When asked by a reporter after getting struck by lightning why they were flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the duo explained that they were inspired by a documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

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.

With Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North in 1922, documentary film embraced romanticism ; Flaherty filmed a number of heavily staged romantic films during this time period, often showing how his subjects would have lived 100 years earlier and not how they lived right then.

The newsreel tradition is important in documentary film ; newsreels were also sometimes staged but were usually re-enactments of events that had already happened, not attempts to steer events as they were in the process of happening.

John Mark Byers, the adoptive father of victim Christopher Byers, gave a knife to cameraman Doug Cooper, who was working with documentary makers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky while they were filming the first Paradise Lost feature.

Charters were documents drawn up to record grants of land by kings to their followers or to the church, and they provide some of the earliest documentary sources in England.

Marshall chose to bypass the normal documentary film-making department, Signal Corps, as he felt they were not capable of producing " sensitive and objective troop information films.

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 freemen of the Lombard kingdom were far more numerous than in Frankland, especially in the 8th century, when they are almost invisible in the surviving documentary evidence for the latter.

The documentary follows the lives of an Inuit, Nanook, and his family as they travel, search for food, and trade in in northern Quebec, Canada.

Since Flaherty's time both staging action and attempting to steer documentary action have come to be considered unethical amongst cinéma vérité purists, because they believe such reenactments deceive the audience.

In 1972 they performed for a Swedish documentary, Nancy & Lee In Las Vegas, which chronicled their Vegas concerts at the Riviera Hotel and featured solo numbers and duets from concerts, behind-the-scenes footage, and scenes of Sinatra's late husband, Hugh Lambert, and her mother.

Forty years later, the documentary Return To The Edge Of The World was filmed, capturing a reunion of cast and crew of the film as they revisited the island in 1978.

* The Thin Blue Line, a 1966 documentary film by William Friedkin about the police and the problems they encounter

Variations of the documentary hypothesis remain popular especially in America and Israel, and the identification of distinctive Deuteronomistic and Priestly theologies and vocabularies remains widespread, but they are used to form new approaches suggesting that the books were combined gradually over time by the slow accumulation of " fragments " of text, or that a basic text was " supplemented " by later authors / editors.

In 2007 they did the soundtrack for the documentary Strange Culture and also released a double instrumental album, Night of the Hunters.

He clarified this in the documentary movie Gigantic ( A Tale of Two Johns ) by explaining that the name refers to the outside world of possibilities that they saw as a fledgling band.

" Rotten, known more for his outspoken dislikes and disdain than for praise and admiration, recently said of X-Ray Spex in a retrospective punk documentary, " Them, they came out with a sound and attitude and a whole energy — it was just not relating to anything around it — superb.

* " Mystical Brain " by Isabelle Raynauld ( 2006 )-a documentary film about 5 Carmelite Nuns who volunteered to have their brains scanned while they meditated by recalling mystical experiences

Consisting of possibly only 500 archers ( although there is no documentary evidence as to their numbers ), they played little part in the battle.

In 2007 they released the documentary DVD Inside the Smiths, a surprisingly affectionate memoir of their time with the band, notable for the absence of Marr, Morrissey, and their music.

Greg Lake commented on the Beyond the Beginning documentary about the Works tour that they had lost about 3 million dollars from their pockets.

On the same documentary, Keith Emerson said, they ( Lake and Palmer ) still blame him for it, " you and your bloody orchestra ".

Along with the announcement of their new label, the band mentioned that they are planning to record the soundtrack to Honoring a Father's Dream: Sons of Lwala, a documentary about Milton and Fred Ochieng ' - brothers from the African village training to be doctors in the States, working to build a clinic in their home town.

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.

The 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, a comedy based around a fictional 1970s rock band, was filmed in the style of a documentary and includes such details as fake album covers and historical videos done in the styles of the late 1960s and 1970s.

The 1996 Canadian film Hard Core Logo, about a punk band was done in the style of a documentary.

The 2007 bio drama What we do is secret, about the punk band The Germs, is done in a partial documentary style, with cast members addressing the camera as if being interviewed.

He is also working on a documentary about the rock band The Stooges and co-writing a non-traditional opera about the inventor Nikola Tesla.

The 65-minute documentary features the band wandering their old haunts and discussing their formation, career and reunion with John Peel.

In June 2007, the two albums were reissued as The Traveling Wilburys Collection, a box set including both albums on CD ( with bonus tracks ) and a DVD featuring a twenty-four minute band documentary and a collection of music videos.

Other uses include in the 2004 documentary film Fahrenheit 9 / 11 ; in the 2005 film The Ringer ; as entrance music for the British band James, as well as episodes of The Simpsons that had a " western " theme ( mainly in the episode titled " Dude, Where's My Ranch ?").

A documentary of the making of the album, Destiny Rules, was released on DVD in 2004 and chronicles the sometimes turbulent relationships between band members, especially Buckingham and Nicks, during that time in the studio.

According to the documentary Take That: For the Record, his mother read an advertisement seeking members for a new boy band and suggested that he try out for the group.

In January 2010, No Distance Left to Run, a documentary about the band, was released in cinemas and a month later on DVD.

Since late 1969, Led Zeppelin had been planning on filming one of their live performances for a projected movie documentary of the band.

To promote the release of If Not Now, When ?, the band took part in a participatory media exhibit and real-time documentary called Incubus HQ Live that allowed unprecedented fan access and interaction.

A documentary by Todd Kwait about the history and influence of jug band music, Chasin ' Gus ' Ghost, first screened at the 2007 San Francisco Jug Band Festival.

* Chasin ' Gus ' Ghost jug band documentary

The band also performed alongside Sonic Youth at 1991's Reading Festival, which was documented by Dave Markey's music documentary, 1991: The Year Punk Broke.

" The band also appeared in the 1995 documentary Not Bad for a Girl.

In 2005 the band was the subject of a documentary called Fearless Freaks, featuring appearances by other artists and celebrities such as Gibby Haynes, The White Stripes, Beck, Christina Ricci, Liz Phair, Juliette Lewis, Steve Burns, Starlight Mints, and Adam Goldberg.

* Hasil Adkins-Appalachian Rockabilly one man band whom recorded many songs, appeared in movies and TV shows and was featured in a documentary, " The Wild World Of Hasil Adkins.