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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.