Documentary films are nonfiction motion pictures intended to document aspects of reality primarily for instruction or maintaining historical records. Social media platforms have allowed documentaries to improve distribution and education reach. Documentaries can be used for journalism, advocacy, or personal expression. They aim to entertain, educate, persuade and inform, with values of being educative, illuminating issues, and engaging empathy. A good documentary raises questions, uses impartial filmmaking, and constructs a particular vision of reality through techniques to inform, convince and persuade.

2. DOCUMENTARY FILMS

3. CONTINUED…
•A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document
some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction , education
or maintaining a historical record.
•Social media platforms such as youyube , have allowed documentary
films to improve the ways the films are distributed and able to eduacate
and broaden the reach of people who receive the information.

4. CONTINUED..
•Actuality films
•Include more categories , such as educational , observational , and even
docufiction.
•Polish writer and filmmaker Boleslaw Matuszewski was among those
who identified the mode of documentary film.
•Documentary filmmaking can be used as a form of journalism , advocacy ,
or personal expression.

5. TYPES OF DOCUMENTARY
• 1. Poetic documentary
• 2. Expository documentary
• 3. Observational documentary
• 4. Participatory documentary
• 5. Reflexive documentary
• 6. Performative documentary

6. FUNCTION AND GENERAL AIMS OF
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
•Four function of documentary films
•1. To record , reveal or preserve
•2. To persuade or promote
•3. To analyze or interrogate
•4. To express
•General aims of documentary films
•1. To entertain
•2, To educate
•3. To persuade
•4. To inform

7. VALUES OF DOCUMENTARIES
•1) Educative
•2) Illuminative ( shedding light on
a topic or issue )
•3) Empathetic (engaging as
emotionally with a subject )
•4) Social and political function (
criticising , analysing , satirising )

8. A GOOD DOCUMENTARY
•The people who wield the power , influence and information are become
part of the film.
•The filmmaker must remain impartial and be open minded enough to
present all sides of story.
•A good documentary raises more questions than answers . There is myth
that a good documentary film serves as proof or the ultimate explanation
of something.
•In well made documentaries the camera is the great truth- teller , the
viewer is easily able to figure out who is telling the truth.

9. DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND REALITY
•Construct a particular vision of the
real world
•Specific film techniques to inform ,
convince and persuade.
•Mediate meaning , producing some
version of interpretation of this
subject.

10. SHORT DOCUMENTARY
•Documentary short film directed by
Rayka Zehtabchi .
•The film is inspired from the life of
Arunachalam Muruganantham , a
social activist from Tamil nadu , India.
•Indian women fight the stigma
surrounding menstruation and begin
manufacturing sanitary pads.

11. DOCUMENTORY FILM
• DIRECTED BY THOMAS RIEDELSHEIMER , ABOUT
THE BRITISH ARTIST ANDY GOLDSWORTHY .
• ART WITH PHILOSOPHY.
• NEW CREATION
• PROCESS OF LIFE AND DEATH IN NATURE

12. AWARD WINNING INDIAN DOCUMENTARY
• The story of India
• An insignificant man
• The world before her
• In the name of god
• Children of the pyre
• Beyond all boundaries
• Mahakumbh
• India untouched
• Powerless

13. CONCLUSION
•Documentaries continue to play important roles in defining , exposing
and transforming social realities. Some of the documentaries are made
just to discredit some particular person , party , organization , system etc..
But most of them are non biased , without prejudice and worth watching.