Media Series - TV
History of Documentary

Media language - Pages 5-6

Documentary History: Watch and analyse the following films.

1895: Lumiere brothers – Arrival of a train at La Ciotat station - actuality

1922: Robert Flaherty – Nanook of the North – romanticism

1928: Man With a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov – ‘kino-pravda’ and the city symphony BFI trailer

1929: Drifters – John Grierson - creative actuality

1933: Housing Problems - Elton & Anstey- social impact

1953: Free Cinema – Lindsay Anderson O Dreamland

1966: Titicut Follies trailer – Frederick Wiseman – cinéma vérité

1966: Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach - Cathy Come Home clip

1975: Grey Gardens 2015 trailer - direct cinema - Alfred & David Maysles

1998: Kurt & Courtney trailer Nick Broomfield – self-reflexive

2002: Bowling for Columbine Michael Moores- performative/participatory/Les Nouvelles Egotistes

2006: Nick Broomfield – Ghosts - direct cinema

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