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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Autobiographical filmCompared with: Autobiographical films can be fictionalized, whereas documentary film makes nonfiction claims.

• Hollywood glamourCompared with: Documentary conventions often resist the controlled artifice that produces Hollywood glamour.

• Rome, Open CityCompared with: The film borrows documentary immediacy while remaining a scripted fictional drama.

• Shōhei ImamuraCompared with: Imamura drew on documentary observation while shaping fictional stories rather than making conventional documentaries.

• Visual anthropologyCompared with: Documentary film may share its forms while lacking visual anthropology’s ethnographic research commitments.

• Drama filmCompared with: Drama films usually construct fictional stories, unlike documentary films’ nonfiction claims.

• Jia ZhangkeCompared with: Jia’s fiction often borrows documentary observation, while works such as 24 City deliberately blur the boundary.

• Cinema of the United StatesCompared with: Its claims to record reality differ from the fiction-centered commercial mainstream.

• Costa-GavrasCompared with: His fiction films often borrow documentary-like detail without claiming to be documentaries.

• Monster: The Ed Gein StoryCompared with: Unlike a documentary, the miniseries uses scripted performances to depict Gein’s story.

• Postmodernist filmCompared with: Documentary claims to depict reality make a useful counterpoint to postmodernist challenges to representation.