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.

AFI operates two film festivals: AFI FEST in Los Angeles, CA, and AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS documentary festival in Silver Spring, MD.

* Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story, a 2005 American documentary film

* The Spirit of Aachen – documentary film by SportsQuest International

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 ).

The film, in which Brooks obnoxiously films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

A new feature-length documentary film by Edwin Pagan called Bronx Burning is in production in 2006, chronicling what led up to the numerous arson-for-insurance fraud fires of the 1970s in the borough.

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

Portions of this interview appear in I Build the Tower, a documentary film on Rodia's architectural masterpiece.

The documentary film Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street by director Phil Ranstrom features Bo Diddley's last on-camera interview.

* The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr. ( 1996 ), documentary film directed by Brett Thompson

After his death, film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill examined out-takes from the Mutual films and presented their findings in a three-part documentary Unknown Chaplin ( 1983 ).

* Commentary or narration, the words in a documentary film

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

In 2006, a documentary film called Crokinole was released.

* HBO documentary film " Celibacy "

* Columbia Revolt, a black-and-white 1968 documentary film

Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012 ) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.

In 1952 Marker made his first film, Olympia 52, a 16mm feature documentary about the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.

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.

The festival included events and activities spanning: lectures, panel discussions, pub talks, cultural activities, a PI documentary premiere ( The Quantum Tamers: Revealing Our Weird and Wired Future ), sci-fi film festival, an art exhibit and the hugely popular Physica Phantastica exhibit centre, a 5, 000-square-foot ( 460 m2 ) space filled with demonstrations, hands-on activities, experiments and an immersive 3D tour of the universe narrated by Stephen Hawking.

Seed was a star player on Caltech's basketball team and is featured in the 2006 documentary Quantum Hoops.

In turn, this recognition may reduce film festivals ' concerns about copyright clearance ; in an earlier analogous situation, festivals were concerned about documentary films until best practices for them were developed.

* The Orson Welles documentary F for Fake concerns both art and literary forgery.

He was said to be suffering from a severe case of agoraphobia, although the documentary Fearless Freaks states that he left because of his growing concerns over Drozd's drug use.

In January 2009, after the BBC documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed, The Kennel Club introduced revised breed standards for the British Bulldog, along with 209 other breeds, to address health concerns.

The abrupt change from concerns about the Moabites to the Midianites, and mention of the end of a plague which is never described as starting, is explained by the documentary hypothesis as being down to a change from the JE source to the Priestly source.

In late 1993, a Frontline ( PBS ) documentary highlighting these concerns was televised, comparing FC to Ouija.

Some of these concerns were voiced in the documentary film Meeting People Is Easy, which focused on the period.

The following month ITV broadcast a Thames Television documentary Death on the Rock reflecting concerns about the shootings, which led to criticism of the British government.

Reasons for this unity, in addition to the presumed presence of the other documentary traditions, are taken from comparisons of the thematic concerns that underlie the narrative surface of the texts.

The independent documentary Hart Island: An American Cemetery by Melinda Hunt also concerns Hart Island.

* Orson Welles ' documentary F for Fake () concerns Elmyr de Hory

Israeli concerns are based on abundant documentary and empirical evidence of many Palestinian leaders having in fact promoted and supported terrorist groups and activities.

Irshad's photographs display the visual concerns of his documentary films with surreal renderings of urban and industrial environments.

The Zion Coptic Church was featured in the 2011 Billy Corben documentary Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja, whose first section concerns the group and features interviews with former members.

The work is featured in the documentary La vie moderne ( 2008 ) by French director Raymond Depardon, which concerns the contemporary lives of farmers in the French countryside.

These events are also alleged in the 2004 documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.

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.

* 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.

These films show strong affinities with the work of Italian neorealists, not least Roberto Rossellini's neorealist trilogy which included Germany Year Zero ( 1948 ), and are concerned primarily with day-to-day life in the devastated Germany and an initial reaction to the events of the Nazi period ( the full horror of which was first experienced by many in documentary footage from liberated concentration camps ).

This creates a foundation for documentary research, which involves examining and evaluating historical records for evidence about ancestors and other relatives, their kinship ties, and the events that occurred in their lives.

Author Peter C. Cavanaugh, who witnessed the event, recalled the events for a documentary on the 1960s rock scene.

He is close friends with Tony Stewart as he helps with charity events, and Kid Rock narrated Tony Stewart: Smoke, a documentary of Stewart's 2002 championship season.

The Pythons featured in the documentary and reflected upon the events that surrounded the film.

But her violent death marks the start of an increasingly bleak and violent chain of events ( influenced by co-writer Nick Davies ' documentary book Dark Heart ) which in spite of the director's denial that the film had " serious parallels " to Shakespeare's play, actually mirror aspects of its plot closely.

Her recollection of the documentary is transcribed into first person to give the impression of a witness account of the events captured in the film.

Although the events and characters depicted are fictional, it is often misidentified as a documentary film.

The documentary covers events related to creation and publication of The Gulag Archipelago.

A mockumentary ( a portmanteau of the words mock and documentary ), is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format.

These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself.

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.

The Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) carried out many high-profile armed robberies at locations such as banks and supermarkets in the town 2001, until some time after a BBC Northern Ireland documentary highlighted the events in December 2004, although another robbery involving hostage taking occurred in October 2006.

* CBC Television produced a two-hour documentary program Black October in 2000, in which the events of the crisis were discussed in great detail.

The documentary film Strong Enough to Break follows these events.

In a 2004 documentary titled The Secret of Redgate by Lynda J. Cowen and Jim Marrs, a number of Deer Lodge residents explain about their experiences with extraterrestrial beings and the rumours surrounding these events.

Both Hinn and Bonnke offered full access to their events to the documentary crew, and the documentary team followed seven cases of " miracle healings " from Hinn's crusade over the next year.