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History and Issues of Documentary Film


The following films are currently on reserve at the MassArt library for viewing in the library. Additional films may be added to this collection through the course of the semester. Some of these can be seen on Netflix.

  • Backyard (Ross McElwee, 1984), part of the Ross McElwee DVD Collection
  • Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War (Jeff Silva, 2008)
  • Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (Walther Ruttmann, 1927)
  • Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee, 2004), part of the Ross McElwee DVD Collection
  • Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
  • Charleen (Ross McElwee, 1978), part of the Ross McElwee DVD Collection
  • Crisis—Behind a Presidential Commitment (Robert Drew, 1963), part of the Robert Drew Kennedy
    films collection
  • Daughter from Danang (Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco, 2002)
  • Dead Birds (Robert Gardner, 1964)
  • Herb and Dorothy (Megumi Sasaki, 2008)
  • Intimidad (Ashley Sabin and David Redmond, 2009)
  • Iraq in Fragments (James Longley, 2006)
  • If It Fits (John Marshall, 1978)
  • Kalahari Family, A (John Marshall, 2001, 5-part series)
  • Keep the River on Your Right: A modern cannibal tale (David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro,
    2000)
  • King Corn (Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis, Ian Cheney, 2007)
  • Loaded Gun: Life, and death, and Dickinson (James Wolpaw, 2002)
  • Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) Russian title: Chelovek s kino-apparatom
  • Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal, 2006)
  • Maria’s Story (Pamela Cohen, Monona Wali, 1990)
  • Middletown (Series produced by Peter Davis, 1982): The Campaign (Tom Cohen); The Big Game (E.J. Vaughn); Second Time Around (Peter Davis); Community of Praise (Richard Leacock & Marisa Silver); Family Business (Tom Cohen); Seventeen (Joel DeMott & Jeff Kreines, 1982)
  • Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922)
  • Nanook Revisited (Claude Massot, 1990)
  • Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955) French title: uit et brouillard
  • Night Mail (Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936), on same DVD as The Plow That Broke The Plains
  • Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)
  • Pictures from a Revolution (Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers, Alfred Guzzetti, 1991)
  • Plow That Broke The Plains, The (Pare Lorentz, 1934), on same DVD as Night Mail
  • Primary (Robert Drew, 1960), part of the Robert Drew Kennedy films collection
  • Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1983)
  • Roger & Me (Michael Moore, 1989)
  • San Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
  • Shadow of the House (Allie Humenuk, 2007)
  • Sherman’s March (Ross McElwee, 1986), part of the Ross McElwee DVD Collection
  • Silverlake Life: The view from here (Tom Joslin and Peter Friedman, 1993)
  • Six O’clock News (Ross McElwee, 1997), part of the Ross McElwee DVD Collection
  • Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee, 1993), part of the Ross McElwee DVD Collection
  • Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein, 1984)
  • Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989)
  • Who Killed the Electric Car? (Chris Paine, 2006)

The following online resources are recommended for further study:

 

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