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.

The documentary film Quantum Hoops concerns the events of the Beavers ' 2005 – 06 season.

* 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.

In 1994, she was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.

They also visited colleges to showcase Strong Enough to Break, the documentary chronicling difficulties with and departure from Island Def Jam.

The first episode of the band's documentary Strong Enough to Break was also released on iTunes.

* JDC Films, known for its documentary " My Block: Strong Island " is based in Uniondale.

The documentary caused the latter's certification to be changed from a 15 certificate to an 18 certificate, due to the Very Strong Language the documentary contains.

In 2002, she was featured in a documentary film on American soul music, Only the Strong Survive, and was appointed by Secretary of State Colin Powell as a Culture-Connect Ambassador for the U. S. State Department, appearing at international events arranged by that agency.

Grampian also contributed to Channel 4 in the form of various documentary series including Oil ( co-produced with NRK ), The Blood is Strong, Alternative Energy and Scotland the Grave.

Pennebaker-directed documentary Only the Strong Survive ( 2003 ) in which he co-stars with his daughter Carla.

She was also featured in the 2003 documentary, Only the Strong Will Survive that was shown at the Cannes Film Festival and showcased important Stax recording artists.

* Lord Our Righteousness Church, New Mexico, a religious community sometimes called Strong City, and the subject of the National Geographic documentary " Inside a Cult "

Greyson worked with Hanson on the documentary film Strong Enough To Break, about the 3½ year struggle the band went through to make a record.

* " A Small Voice, But a Strong Voice "-A short documentary about Ralph Carr that won the 2006 National History Day competition.

* Enough Man, 2010 documentary

* In 2007, another documentary was released: Harry Crews-Survival is Triumph Enough.

Williams is the author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 ( 1988 ), a companion to the documentary series of the same name about the African-American Civil Rights Movement ; Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary ( 2000 ), a biography of Thurgood Marshall, the first black American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States ; and Enough ( 2006 ), which was inspired by Bill Cosby's speech at the NAACP gala, and deals with Williams ' critique of black leaders in America, and as he puts it the " culture of failure.

The 2009 documentary My Big Break followed Bentley, and several other young actors, before and after he landed the part.

In addition, Neagle also appeared briefly as herself in a documentary short entitled The Volunteer ( 1943 ), and served as narrator for the films The Prams Break Through ( 1945 ) and Princess's Wedding Day ( 1947 ).

Bentley is one of the main subjects in the documentary My Big Break, directed by Tony Zierra, which follows Bentley and three of his former roommates, Chad Lindberg, Brad Rowe and Greg Fawcett, as they pursue their dream to become successful actors in Hollywood.

The documentary My Big Break captures Bentley's early life as an unknown actor, his explosive career launch after American Beauty, his subsequent emotional struggle with fame, and his admission years later that he was recovering from an addiction to drugs and alcohol.

The American band Wilco has played Fay's song " Be Not So Fearful " in live performances and the band's singer, Jeff Tweedy, can be heard singing it in the documentary, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco.

He designed and directed animation sequences in the Academy Award-winning HBO documentary You Don't Have to Die ( 1988 ) and the Peabody Award-winning CBS documentary Break the Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse ( 1994 ).

He was featured in the 1996 Channel 4 documentary Break The Science Barrier with Richard Dawkins, where he showed various tricks, as he performs them in his lectures as an illusionist.

Fricke has also appeared on a number of Lou Reed documentaries and in the Wilco documentary I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.