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A DVD documentary is a documentary film of indeterminate length that has been produced with the sole intent of releasing it for direct sale to the public on DVD, which is different from a documentary being made and released first on television or on a cinema screen (a.k.a. theatrical release) and subsequently on DVD for public consumption.
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 Great Hack is a 2019 documentary film about the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, produced and directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, both previous documentary Academy Award nominees (The Square, Control Room, Startup.com). [1] [2] The film's music was composed by Emmy-nominated film composer Gil Talmi.
Three Identical Strangers is a 2018 documentary film, directed by Tim Wardle, about the lives of Edward Galland, David Kellman, and Robert Shafran, a set of identical-triplet brothers adopted as infants by separate families.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media [1] is a 1992 documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of linguist, intellectual, and political activist Noam Chomsky. Canadian filmmakers Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick expand the analysis of capitalism and mass media presented in Manufacturing Consent , a 1988 book Chomsky ...
Startup.com is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus. D. A. Pennebaker served as a producer on the film. It follows the dot-com start-up govWorks.com, which raised $60 million in funding from Hearst Interactive Media, KKR, the New York Investment Fund, and Sapient.
Blink is a 2024 American documentary film directed by Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher.It follows a Canadian family who journey around the world prior to their children losing their vision to a rare genetic disorder, in order to experience the world's beauty while they still can.
The Silent World opened at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d'Or award; [4] it was the only documentary film to win the award until Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 repeated the feat in 2004. The film was released in the United States on September 24, 1956 by Columbia Pictures and earned theatrical rentals of over $3 million. [5]