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Title:

To tell the truth / Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor.

Publisher:

Icarus Films,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Documentary films--History.--History.
Documentary films--History.--History.
Social movements--History.
United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
Social movements--Great Britain--History.
Great Britain--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
War films--World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
Motion pictures in propaganda.
Documentary films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Skaggs, Calvin, film director.
Taylor, David Van, film director.

Notes:

Special features: Alec Baldwin on the importance of documentaries; Agnes Varda on the making of documentaries; Film historian Kevin Brownlow on Leni Riefenstahl; Two WWII documentaries by John Huston.

Contents:

Disc 1. Working for change / directed by Calvin Skaggs -- The strategy of truth / directed by David Van Taylor -- Disc 2. Bonus features.

Summary:

Working For Change: explores the birth of the social documentary, featuring interviews with several of the people who helped define and shape the form. The Strategy Of Truth: explores the role of film as propaganda during World War II, and the different forms it took in the US, the UK, and Germany. It also raises the central question of whether a film can be both documentary, reflecting the truth, and propaganda.

UPC:

854565002005

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)