Saturday, 26 May 2012

Great Documentaries In The History Of Cinema

By Betsy Davenport


Documentary films set out to maintain a historical record of a current event or period of time in human history. They are first-person accounts that are praised for their true and honest depictions of social movements, war, government, aspects of our culture, and so on. Here are some great documentaries that have been made in modern times. great documentaries

Released back in 1985, 'Shoah, ' is a film about the Holocaust and its survivors, which runs a shock nine and a half hours long. The film focuses on interviews with survivors from the time and all their experiences through World War II and beyond. It contains footage of Poles, Germans, survivors from the concentration-camps, and also perpetrators of Nazi Germany's terrible crimes.

'Woodstock' is the documentary about the three-day-long music festival that took place in the summer of 1969 in upstate New York. The film captured not just the concert's music, but also the peace and love-filled weekend that over half of a million people shared. It was a huge commercial and critical success.

Al Gore wrote a documentary film about climate change called 'An Inconvenient Truth, ' which was released in 2006. It was praised worldwide for its honesty, realism, and important future implications about global warming that is caused by humans. Roger Ebert, acclaimed film critic, has even claimed that the film can potentially 'change public policy to save the earth.'

The highest-grossing documentary film of all time is 'Fahrenheit 9/11, ' which came out in June of 2004. It focuses on the September 11th attacks, the reaction by the U. S. Government, and the subsequent Iraqi invasion. It grossed over $220 million around the world within a year of its release, which included $120 million in America alone. The film's title references a novel about a dystopian society, called 'Fahrenheit 451.'

The most recent film to achieve high commercial and critical success, and is considered one of the great documentaries of the 21st century, is 'Capitalism: A Love Story.' It was released in 2010 directed by the same director (and writer) of 'Fahrenheit 9/11, ' which was Michael Moore. Its general overview focuses on the financial crisis of the late-2000s, the American 'housing bubble, ' and how it is affecting middle-class America. It is also praised for simplifying recent events and parts of politics that have been put in place, in order to help the viewer to piece together and understand what is currently going on in the American government. It is also the 12th-highest grossing documentary film in history.




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