Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film

(Note: List is not final and is subject to change prior to publication.)

Films
Individuals: Directors and Producers
Individuals: Theorists and Thinkers
Individuals: Other
Production Companies, Organizations, Festivals, and Institutions
Countries and Regions
General Topics and Concepts
Styles, Techniques, and Technical Issues
Themes, Issues, and Representations
Types of Documentary

Films
Abel Gance: Yesterday and Tomorrow
Act of God
Adolescents, The
American Family, An
Anais Nin Observed
Angela: Portrait of a Revolutionary
Ark, The
Ascent of Man
Aubervilliers
Back of Beyond, The
Basic Training
Bataille du Rail, La
Battle for our Soviet Ukraine, The
Battle of Chile, The
Battle of China, The
Battle of Midway
Battle of Russia
Battle of San Pietro, The
Battle of the Somme
BBC: The Voice of Britain
Berlin: The Symphony of a Great City
Beruf: Neonazi
Black Box BRD
Blue Eyed
Bridge, The
Bronx Morning, A
Bumming in Beijing
Burden of Dreams
Burma Victory
Camera Natura
Canada Carries On
Cane Toads
Cathy Come Home
Chair, The
Chang
Chelsea Girls, The
Children at School
China!
Chronique d'un été
Chulas Fronteras
Churchill's Island
City of Gold
City, The
Close-Up
Coal Face
Comizi d'Amore
Contact
Cuba, si!
Culloden
Dead Birds
Death of a Princess
December 7
Del Mero Corazón
Desert Victory
Diary for Timothy, A
Dinner Party, The
Divided World, A
Divine Horsemen
Dockers
Dont Look Back
Drifters
Eiffel Tower, The
Enough to Eat?
Enthusiasm
Eternity
Être et Avoir
Every Day Except Christmas
Exile and the Kingdom
Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, The
Family Portrait
Far From Vietnam
Farrebique
Finding Christa
Fires Were Started
First Love
For Love or Money
Forest of Bliss
400 Million, The
Franz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Georgia O'Keeffe
Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me
Gimme Shelter
Glass
Good Woman of Bangkok, The
Granton Trawler
Grass
Great Adventure, The
Great Day in Harlem, A
Great White Silence, The
Handsworth Songs
Happy Mother's Day, A
Heart of Spain
Hearts and Minds
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocolypse
Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam
Hell Unlimited
High School
Hiroshima-Nagasaki-August 1945
History and Memory
Hoop Dreams
Hospital
Hôtel des Invalides
Hour of the Furnaces, The
Housing Problems
Human, Too Human
Hunters, The
I Do Not Know What It Is I am Like
In the Company of Men
In the Year of the Pig
In This Life's Body
Industrial Britain
Interesting Times
Introduction to the Enemy
Jane
Janis
Jazz on a Summer's Day
Joli Mai, Le
Journal inachevé
Journey, The
Joyce at 34
Koyaanisqatsi
Kuhle Wampe
L'amour existe
Land, The
Land Without Bread
Law and Order
LBJ
Lessons of Darkness
Life and Death of Frieda Kahlo, The
Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, The
Lights Out in Europe
Line to Tcherva Hut
Lion Has Wings, The
Listen to Britain
Living Desert, The
London Can Take It
Lonely Boy
Long Tan: The True Story
Looking for Langston
Louisiana Story
Man of Aran
Man with a Movie Camera, The
Manhatta
Man's Hope
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
March of Time, The
Meat
Mechanics of the Brain
Mein Kampf
Memorandum
Memphis Belle
Mills of the Gods, The: Viet Nam
Moana
Momma Don't Allow
Mondo Cane
Monterey Pop
Nana, Mom and Me
Nanook of the North
Native Land
Nazis, The: A Warning From History
Negro Soldier, The
New Earth
Night and Fog
Night Mail
Now
Olympia
On the Bowery
Ordinary Fascism
Paris 1900
Paris is Burning
People's Century
Phantom India
Pictures of the Old World
Plow That Broke the Plains, The
Polizeistaatsbesuch, Der
Prayer
Primary
Pull My Daisy
Pumping Iron
Que Viva Mexico!
Rain
Retour, Le
Rien que les heures
River, The
Roger and Me
Sad Song of Yellow Skin
Sadness: A Monologue by William Yang
Salesman
Salt of the Earth
Sang des Betes, Le
Sans Soleil
Secrets of Nature
Seeing Red
Selling of the Pentagon, The
Sense of Loss, A
Septemberweizen
Serious Undertakings
79 Springtimes of Ho Chi Minh
Shinjuku Boys
Shoah
Shoot to Kill
Silent World, The
Song of Ceylon
Sorrow and the Pity, The
South
Spanish Earth, The
Spellbound
Target for Tonight
Testimony on Non Intervention
Thin Blue Line, The
Three Songs About Lenin
Times of Harvey Milk, The
Tire Dié
Titicut Follies
To Die in Madrid
Tokyo Olympiad
Triumph of the Will
Troubles We've Seen, The
True Glory, The
True Story of Lili Marlene, The
Tunisian Victory
Turksib
Tyneside Story
Union Maids
Victory at Sea
Video Diaries
Visions of Eight
Voyage au Congo
Waiting for Fidel
War Game, The
War Room, The
Wave, The
We Are the Lambeth Boys
We Live in Two Worlds
Welfare
When the Dog Bites
When We Were Kings
Who Bombed Birmingham
Why We Fight
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory and Other Lumiere Shorts
World at War, The
World in Action
Wrestling
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
Zone, La

Individuals: Directors and Producers
Agee, James
Agland, Phil
Akerman, Chantal
Akomfrah, John
Alexander, Donald
Allégret, Marc
Alvarez, Santiago
Anderson, Lindsay
Anstey, Edgar
Antonio, Emile de
Apted, Michael
Arcand, Denys
Bang Carlsen, Jon
Barclay, Barry
Basse, Wilfred
Benoit-Lévy, Jean
Berliner, Alan
Birri, Fernando
Birtles, Francis
Bitomsky, Harmut
Blank, Les
Bond, Ralph
Bossak, Jerzy
Böttcher, Jürgen
Boulting, Roy
Brakhage, Stan
Brault, Michel
Brittain, Donald
Brodmann, Roman
Broomfield, Nick
Burch, Noel
Burns, Ken
Canudo, Ricciotto
Capra, Frank
Cavalcanti, Alberto
Chan, Evans
Clair, Réne
Cooper, Merian C.
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves
Coutinho, Eduardo
Craigie, Jill
Cürlis, Hans
Davis, Peter
Depardon, Raymond
Deren, Maya
Dindo, Richard
Drew, Robert
Dvortsevoy, Sergei
Dyke, Willard Van
Elton, Arthur
Emigholz, Heinz
Emmer, Luciano
Epstein, Jean
Ertel, Dieter
Fanck, Arnold
Fechner, Eberhard
Fernhout, Johannes Hendrik
Field, Mary
Flaherty, Robert
Forgács, Peter
Franju, Georges
Frank, Herz
Freyer, Ellen
Fumio, Kamei
Galan, Hector
Gardner, Robert
Gass, Karl
Gazdag, Gyula
Goddard, Jean-Luc
Godmilow, Jill
Gold, Jack
Goldovskaya, Marina
Goldson, Annie
Gorin, Jean-Pierre
Grabe, Hans-Dieter
Graef, Roger
Greene, Felix
Grigsby, Mike
Groulx, Gilles
Guzman, Patricio
Guzzetti, Alfred
Haanstra, Bert
Haskell, Molly
Hass, Hans
Hegedus, Chris
Heller, Peter
Herzog, Werner
Heyer, John
Heynowski, Walter and Gerhard Scheumann
Honigman, Heddy
Horst, Herman van der
Hughes, John
Hurley, Frank
Huston, John
Ichikawa, Kon
Isaacs, Jeremy
Ivens, Joris
Jackson, Pat
Jacobs, Lewis
Jacoby, Irving
Jarl, Stefan
Jennings, Humphrey
Julien, Isaac
Junge, Winfried and Barbara
Junghans, Carl
Kalbus, Oskar
Karabasz, Kazimierz
Karlin, Marc
Karmen, Roman
Kauffman, Stanley
Kawase, Naomi
Keiller, Patrick
Keuken, Johan van der
Kiarostami, Abbas
Kieslowski, Krzysztof
King, Allan
Kirchheimer, Manfred
Klein, James
Kline, Herbert
Kluge, Alexander
Koenig, Wolf
Kopple, Barbara
Koreeda, Hirokazu
Kossakovsky, Viktor
Kramer, Robert
Krelja, Petar
Krieg, Peter
Kroiter, Roman
Lacombe, Georges
Langjahr, Erich
Langlois, Henri
Lanzmann, Claude
Lapping, Brian
Leacock, Richard
Legg, Stuart
Leiser, Erwin
Leiterman, Douglas
Lelouch, Claude
Leyda, Jay
Litvak, Anatole
Ljubic, Vesna
Loach, Ken
Longinotto, Kim
Lorentz, Pare
Low, Colin
Lozinski, Marcel
Lumière Brothers, The
Lye, Len
Macartney-Filgate, Terence
MacDonald, Kevin
Makavejev, Dusan
Malle, Louis
Malraux, André
Mander, Kay
Mann, Ron
Marker, Chris
Marshall, John
Mauro, Humberto
Maysles, Albert
McElwee, Ross
McLean, Ross
Meerapfel, Jeanine
Messter, Oskar
Meyers, Sidney
Miller Adato, Perry
Mita, Merita
Mitchell, Denis
Mitry, Jean
Moffatt, Tracey
Montagu, Ivor
Moore, Michael
Moretti, Nanni
Morin, Edgar
Morris, Errol
Moullet, Luc
Murrow, Edward R.
Nestler, Peter
Noriaki, Tsuchimoto
Obamsawin, Alanis
Ophuls, Marcel
O'Rourke, Dennis
Ottinger, Ulrike
Parer, Damien
Pelechian, Artavazd
Pennebaker, DA
Peries, Lester James
Perrault, Pierre
Pilger, John
Pinkus, Edward
Podnicks, Juris
Poirier, Anne Claire
Poirier, Léon
Portillo, Lourdes
Prelorán, Jorge
Preston, Gaylene
Ray, Satyajit
Reichert, Julia
Reidemeister, Helga
Reisz, Karel
Resnais, Alain
Riefenstahl, Leni
Riggs, Marlon
Rikli, Martin
Rochemont, Louis de
Rodriguez, Marta and Jorge Silva
Rogosin, Lionel
Romm, Mikhail
Roos, Jørgen
Rossif, Frédéric
Rouch, Jean
Rouquier, Georges
Rubbo, Michael
Ruspoli, Mario
Sander, Helke
Sauvage, André
Schadt, Thomas
Schlesinger, John
Schoedsack, Ernest B
Schomburgk, Hans
Seidl, Ulrich
Seleckis, Ivars
Seta, Vittorio De
Seybold, Katrin
Shannon, Kathleen
Shub, Esther
Shuker, Gregory
Sinclair, Upton
Siodmak, Robert
Skladanowsky, Max
Sokurov, Alexandr
Špáta, Jan
Spottiswoode, Raymond
Starowicz, Mark
Stern, Bert
Stern, Horst
Stewart, Charles
Stoney, George
Storck, Henri
Strand, Paul
Strick, Joseph
Swallow, Norman
Taylor, John
Thomas, Anthony
Thomson, Margaret
Toscano, Salvador
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Troeller, Gordian
Turin, Victor
Urban, Charles
Vachek, Karel
Varda, Agnès
Vas, Robert
Veiel, Andres
Vigo, Jean
Voigt, Andreas
Warhol, Andy
Watkins, Peter
Watson, Patrick
Watt, Harry
Weiss, Andrea
Whitehead, Peter
Wild, Nettie
Wildenhahn, Klaus
Wintonick, Peter
Wiseman, Frederick
Wright, Basil
Zafranovic, Lordan
Zahn, Peter, von
Zetterling, Mai
Zielke, Willy
Žilnik, Želimir

Individuals: Theorists and Thinkers
Balázs, Béla
Barnouw, Erik
Bazin, André
Comolli, Jean-Louis
Grierson, John
Iwasaki, Akira
Kracauer, Siegfried
Nichols, Bill
Renov, Michael
Rotha, Paul
Vertov, Dziga

Individuals: Other
Balcon, Michael
Beddington, Jack
Beveridge, James
Dalrymple, Ian
Daly, Tom
Elliot, Walter
Greene, Graham
Priestley, J.B.
Reeves, Joseph
Tallents, Stephen
Woolfe, H. Bruce

Production Companies, Organizations, Festivals, and Institutions
A.G DOK
American Broadcasting Company
American Film Institute
Association Internationale des Documentaristes
Black Audio Film Collective
British Film Institute
British Instructional Films
British Transport Films
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Motion Picture Bureau
Central Office of Information
Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board
Challenge for Change
Cinema Action
Cinéma de Réel
Columbia Broadcasting System
Commonwealth Film Unit
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (USA)
Crown Film Unit
DENKmal-Film
Documentary Film Initiative
Documentary Technicians Alliance
Dogme 95
Drew Associates
Dschoint Ventschr
Empire Marketing Board Film Unit
European Documentary Network
Film and Photo League (USA)
Film Australia
Film Centre (UK)
General Post Office Film Unit
Granada Television
Haus des Dokumenterfilm Stuttgart 500
Hot Docs (Toronto)
IDFA Amsterdam
International Documentary Association
London Film Co-op
Ministry of Information: World War I
Ministry of Information: World War II
National Coal Board Film Unit
National Film Board of Canada
Office of War Information
Ogawa Productions
Pathe (UK)
Progressive Film Institute
Prokino
Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, The
SDR "Stuttgarter Schule"
Sheffield Film Co-op
Shell Film Unit
Special Broadcasting System (Australia)
Studio D
Thames Television
Time Magazine
Unit B
Workers' Film and Photo League
Workers' Film Association
World Union of Documentary

Countries and Regions
Africa: Documentary Drama
Australia
Austria
Brazil
British Television Documentary
Canada
Canada, French
Czech Republic/Slovakia
France
German Democratic Republic
Germany
Greece
Iceland/Greenland
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Latin America
Mexico
Near/Middle East
Newsreel Series: Australasia/New Zealand
Newsreel Series: Benelux
Newsreel Series: France
Newsreel Series: Italy
Newsreel Series: Japan
Newsreel Series: Russia
Newsreel Series: Spain/Portugal
Newsreel Series: United Kingdom
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia/Soviet Union
Scandinavia
Scotland
Southeast Asia
Spain
Switzerland
Underground/ Activist Documentary: Australasia/Oceania
Underground/Activist Documentary: Chile
United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Documentary Drama
West Indies and Caribbean
Yugoslavia (former)

General Topics and Concepts
Activist Filmmaking
Autobiography and documentary
Chicano Tradition
Cinemagazine
Docusoap
Globalization and Documentary Film
Mocumentary
News Magazines and Television Current Affairs Programming
Publicity and Public Relations
Realism, Philosophy and the Documentary Film
Reality Television
Reflexivity
Third Cinema
Video

Styles, Techniques, and Technical Issues
Acting
Animation
Camera Technology
Cinema Novo
Compilation
Computer Imaging
Computer Simulation
Digital video
Digitization
Distribution and Exhibition
Editing Techniques
Editing Technology
Film Stock
Found Footage
IMAX
Indexicality
Interactivity
Multimedia
Music
Narration
Production Processes
Sound
Spoken Commentary ("Voice of God")
Subjunctive Documentary
Videotape

Themes, Issues, and Representations
Aesthetics and Documentary Film: Poetics
Bosnian Documentary Movement
Deconstruction, Documentary Film and
Ethnographic Documentary Film
Falklands War
Fascist Italy
Fascist Spain
Feminism: Africa
Feminism: Critical Overview
Feminism: North America
Feminism: United Kingdom
Hitler and National Socialist Party
Homosexuality and Documentary Film
Human Rights and Documentary Film
Marxism
Modernism: Avant-garde and Experimental Early Silent European Documentary
Spanish Civil War
Sports
Trade Unions and Labour/ Workers Movements
Vietnam War
Weimar: Leftist Documentary
Women, American: Early Filmmakers
World War I
World War II

Types of Documentary
Documentary Drama: Critical Overview
Educational Films (US and UK)
Instructional Films (US and UK)
Newsreels and Documentary Film
Newsreel Series: World Overview
Television Documentary: Overview