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.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films.

In this regard, Grierson's definition of documentary as " creative treatment of actuality " has gained some acceptance, with this position at variance with Soviet film-maker Dziga Vertov's provocation to present " life as it is " ( that is, life filmed surreptitiously ) and " life caught unawares " ( life provoked or surprised by the camera ).

Although Morris has achieved fame as a documentary filmmaker, he is also an accomplished director of television commercials.

including the Pacific Research Institute, which has released a documentary called Not As Good As You Think: Myth of the Middle Class Schools, a movie depicting positive benefits for middle class schools resulting from Sweden's voucher programs.

Brockovich has a more extensive role in the 2012 documentary Last Call at the Oasis, which focuses not only on water pollution but also on the overall state of water scarcity as it relates to water policy in the United States.

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.

In 2004 director Robert Greenwald produced the documentary film Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, which argues that Fox News has a conservative bias.

A CBC Fifth Estate documentary in 2006 linked these two debates, naming Singer as a scientist who has acted as a consultant to industry in both areas, either directly or through a public relations firm.

Lee has also been interviewed for such documentary films as " Metal: A Headbangers Journey " and " Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage " as well as various episodes of the new VH1 Classic series " Metal Evolution ".

Hildegard has been portrayed on film by Patricia Routledge in a dramatized BBC biographical documentary called " Hildegard Von Bingen In Portrait: Ordo Virtutum.

According to the documentary hypothesis, use of names of God indicates authorship, and form critics variously assign passages like Genesis chapter 26, verses 6-11 to the Yahwist source, and Genesis chapter 20 verses 1-7, chapter 21, verse 1 to chapter 22, verse 14 and chapter 22, verse 19 to the Elohist source ; this source-critical approach has admitted problems, in that the name " Yahweh " appears in Elohist material.

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.

The term has often been applied to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore over the years by both critics on the left and right due to his habit of traveling around New York City in a limousine.

In the documentary Live Fast Die Old, it was revealed that he drinks a bottle of Jack Daniel's every day and has done so since he was 30 years old.

In recent years, Palin has written and presented occasional documentary programmes on artists that interest him.

MSP has established a constant presence in the mainstream Polish media and is working on a documentary about itself.

The film is considered the first feature-length documentary, though Flaherty has been criticized for staging several sequences and thereby distorting the reality of his subjects ' lives.

Because no documentary material existed of the storming of the palace, Eistenstein's re-creation of the event has become the source material for historians and filmmakers, giving it further legitimacy as the accepted historical record, which illustrates its success as a propaganda film.

According to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, Turner's land has a higher gross domestic product than Belize.

Founded in 1975, REED has for the last 31 years worked to locate, transcribe, and edit all surviving documentary evidence of drama, minstrelsy, and public ceremonial in England before 1642.

While promoting his 3-D dance film, Pina, Wenders told the Documentary channel Blog in December 2011 that he has already begun work on a new 3-D documentary, this one about architecture.

Also, he has directed a documentary Anima Mundi.

" Tangaroa Expedition " has also been produced as a documentary DVD in English, Norwegian, Swedish and Spanish.

HBO has recently produced a documentary of the life and work of Gloria Steinem, perhaps the name most associated with the women ’ s movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Martin Scorsese has also acknowledged Rossellini's seminal influence in his documentary, My Voyage to Italy ( the title itself a take on Rossellini's Voyage to Italy ).