Saturday 26 May 2012

Great Documentaries In Human History

By Betsy Davenport


Documentary films are loved and appreciated as observations of important times and events in our history. They are often first-person accounts of things such as war, social movements, government, and so on. Here a few of the great documentaries of human history. great documentaries

Released back in 1985, 'Shoah, ' is a film about the Holocaust and its survivors, which runs a shock nine and a half hours long. The film focuses on interviews with survivors from the time and all their experiences through World War II and beyond. It contains footage of Poles, Germans, survivors from the concentration-camps, and also perpetrators of Nazi Germany's terrible crimes.

'Woodstock' is the documentary film about the three-day music festival that took place in upstate New York in 1969. It captured not only the music of the concert, but the weekend of peace and love shared by over half a million people. The film was a massive critical and commercial success.

Al Gore wrote a documentary film about climate change called 'An Inconvenient Truth, ' which was released in 2006. It was praised worldwide for its honesty, realism, and important future implications about global warming that is caused by humans. Roger Ebert, acclaimed film critic, has even claimed that the film can potentially 'change public policy to save the earth.'

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is the highest-grossing documentary film of all time. Released in June of 2004, it focused on the September 11th terrorist attacks and the U. S. Government's reaction and subsequent invasion of Iraq. Around the world, it grossed over $220 million less than a year after its release, including $120 million in the U. S. Alone. The title of the film alludes to 'Fahrenheit 451, ' a novel about a terrible dystopian society.

The most recent film to achieve high commercial and critical success, and is considered one of the great documentaries of the 21st century, is 'Capitalism: A Love Story.' It was released in 2010 directed by the same director (and writer) of 'Fahrenheit 9/11, ' which was Michael Moore. Its general overview focuses on the financial crisis of the late-2000s, the American 'housing bubble, ' and how it is affecting middle-class America. It is also praised for simplifying recent events and parts of politics that have been put in place, in order to help the viewer to piece together and understand what is currently going on in the American government. It is also the 12th-highest grossing documentary film in history.




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