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The earliest documentary listed is Fred Ott's Sneeze (1894), which is also the first motion picture ever copyrighted in North America. The term documentary was first used in 1926 by filmmaker John Grierson as a term to describe films that document reality. For other lists, see Category:Documentary films by country and Category:Documentaries by ...
The 1 Up Fever (2013), mockumentary about Bitcoin and augmented reality video games.; 2gether (2000), spoof of boy bands like N*Sync and The Backstreet Boys.; 7 Days in Hell (2015), a fictional documentary-style exposé on the rivalry between two of the greatest tennis players of all time who battled it out in a 2001 match that lasted seven days.
A documentary film is a film based in fact, documenting some aspect of life. It usually involves narration, interviews, facts and figures. Documentary films made for television should be categorized under Category:Documentary television films. Documentaries made for a television series should be categorized under Category:Documentary television ...
Six Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature winners are featured on the list: Bowling for Columbine, [5] Harlan County, U.S.A., An Inconvenient Truth, The Fog of War, [6] Born into Brothels and Woodstock. Michael Moore, Errol Morris and The Maysles Brothers have multiple entries on the list. [7]
Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles.The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, upper-class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York.
2 Million Minutes is a series of documentary films exploring how students in the United States, India, and the People's Republic of China spend the nominal 2,000,000 minutes of their high school years. [1] The film has been supported by Newt Gingrich and Al Sharpton. [2]
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A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events, but presented as a documentary. [1] The term originated in the 1960s but was popularized in the mid-1990s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film.