A documentary is a fact-based (non-fictional) film that describes certain aspects of reality. Usably, this kind of film does not employ professional actors, with the notable exception within the genre “Docudrama”.

The “real” documentary is characterized through its journalistic-scientific research and it strives to adhere to known facts. The presentation of visual images and also the style of the narrator, try to present the truth, without personal statements or distortion of reality.

Since the development of the motion picture, in the beginning of the 20th century, documentaries have been made. One of the first was the work of the French cinematographer Joseph-Louis Mundwiller (1886-1967): the 7-minute documentary “Moscow Clad in Snow” (1909).

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