Documentary films (Genre/Form Term)

Moving image genre-form guide online, April 27, 2007: (documentary: Grounded in some aspect of real life, documentaries may vary from a very deliberate account of facts to an extremely interpretive rendering of a subject, advocating a particular viewpoint on a political, social, or historical issue)

Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988 (Documentaries and factual works. Use for films and programs which depict actual persons and/or events. Exclude frank historical re-creations, but do not attempt to judge the "truth" of the depiction in a film purporting to be factual or documentary in character)

Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993: p. 77 (Documentary (Docu, Documentary Film, Factual Film, Non-Fiction Film, Realist Film); the term documentary is applied to and includes a vast array of different types of nonfiction or semifictional films; it stretches from the objective presentation of factual material to the subjective use of film for propaganda purposes)