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The 98 pages that link to Documentary film, each with the reason it gives.

• Voice-overRelated: Documentaries often use voice-over to supply context or guide an argument.

• ScreenwritingCompared with: Documentary scripting often develops around actuality rather than fully invented scenes.

• Film productionRelated: Documentary production often builds its plan around access and unfolding events.

• Reality televisionCompared with: Documentaries share nonfiction claims but are not defined by reality television’s recurring entertainment formats.

• Public historyRelated: Documentaries carry historical narratives to audiences beyond heritage institutions.

• Location shootingRelated: Documentaries commonly film in the environments where their subjects live and act.

• Television productionRelated: Documentary television uses production methods to shape factual material into programs.

• MockumentaryCompared with: Mockumentary adopts documentary techniques without making the same basic nonfiction claim.

• NarrativeRelated: Documentaries arrange real-world material into narratives while making claims about reality.

• Direct cinemaNarrower topic: Direct cinema is one historically specific approach within documentary filmmaking.

• Fair UseRelated: Documentaries may quote copyrighted material for criticism, context, or historical evidence.

• RepresentationRelated: Documentaries reveal how claims of access to reality depend on choices of filming and editing.

• Historical filmCompared with: Historical films dramatize the past, while documentaries generally claim nonfiction status.

• Film directingCompared with: Documentary directing must shape material whose events may not be staged or repeatable.

• Handheld cameraRelated: Handheld shooting lets documentary crews follow unfolding events with limited setup.

• ScreenplayRelated: Documentary scripts may guide narration and structure without fixing every filmed event.

• MimesisRelated: Documentaries raise questions about how recorded images imitate or construct reality.

• Nonprofessional actorsNarrower topic: Documentary practices help explain productions that blur the line between acting and self-presentation.

• Political cinemaRelated: Its claims about political reality depend on choices of evidence, framing, and editing.

• Agnès VardaNarrower topic: Her nonfiction work repeatedly tests what documentary observation can reveal.

• Motion pictureRelated: Documentary uses moving images to record, investigate, or interpret the world.

• Found footageNarrower topic: Found footage is a technique that can support documentary claims without guaranteeing them.

• Pornographic filmCompared with: Documentaries about pornography examine its labor and culture without being pornographic films themselves.

• Feature filmRelated: Documentaries can be feature-length and serve as theatrical main attractions.

• Film studiesBroader topic: Documentary raises distinctive questions about evidence, representation, and cinematic truth.

• StorytellingBroader topic: Documentaries use narrative choices to organize claims about real events.

• Art filmCompared with: Documentary describes a claim about subject matter, while art film describes an artistic priority.

• Biographical filmCompared with: Documentary methods offer a nonfiction alternative to dramatized portrayals of a life.

• Concert filmRelated: Documentary methods shape concert films that preserve an actual performance.

• Italian NeorealismCompared with: Neorealist fiction borrowed documentary textures without ceasing to be staged narrative cinema.

• NarrationRelated: Documentaries use narration to frame evidence, explain context, or guide interpretation.

• Experimental filmCompared with: Experimental and documentary modes overlap, but differ in their organizing priorities and truth claims.

• Television documentaryNarrower topic: Television documentaries belong to documentary filmmaking, adapted for broadcast and episodic formats.

• Ethnographic filmNarrower topic: Ethnographic film is a documentary practice with particular attention to cultural life.

• Film (motion picture)Broader topic: It uses film to record, investigate, or argue about the world outside fiction.

• Leni RiefenstahlNarrower topic: Her staged and edited documentaries complicate assumptions that nonfiction images simply record reality.

• NewsreelNarrower topic: Newsreel methods and footage became part of documentary filmmaking's vocabulary.

• Roberto RosselliniRelated: Rossellini's fiction films borrow documentary immediacy without becoming nonfiction.

• Santa Cruz massacreNarrower topic: Hidden-camera footage made the massacre visible to audiences beyond East Timor.

• Video editingRelated: Selecting and ordering footage shapes a documentary’s argument and perspective.

• Werner HerzogNarrower topic: His formally adventurous nonfiction expands debates about what documentary truth requires.

• Video artCompared with: Video art may use documentary footage, but its aims need not be evidence, explanation, or reporting.

• Archival footageNarrower topic: Archival images often provide evidence and historical depth in documentaries.

• Documentary literatureCompared with: It pursues a similar documentary aim through audiovisual rather than primarily written means.

• Forugh FarrokhzadNarrower topic: The House Is Black uses documentary observation while shaping its material poetically.

• Oliver StoneCompared with: Stone’s dramatizations use documentary material but remain scripted interpretations rather than documentaries.

• Propaganda filmRelated: Documentary techniques can lend political claims an appearance of direct evidence.

• Essay filmNarrower topic: The essay film adapts documentary materials while loosening conventional evidentiary structures.

• Shyam BenegalNarrower topic: His documentary experience informed the observational texture of his fiction films.

• The Blair Witch ProjectCompared with: The promotional materials borrowed documentary conventions while presenting a fictional disappearance as real.