Documentary movies & films books

Sporting Realities is a collection that explores the sports documentary’s cultural meanings, aesthetic practices,...  Read More >>

An unprecedented portrait of an emperor penguin colony in Antarctica, generously illustrated with the author's breathtaking...  Read More >>

This is an accessible and comprehensive ‘how to’ guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or...  Read More >>

"Assembling new approaches to the study of U.S. newsfilm in cinema and television, this book makes a critical intervention...  Read More >>

This is an accessible and comprehensive ‘how to’ guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or...  Read More >>

The study of amateur filmmaking and media history is a rapidly-growing specialist field, and this ground-breaking...  Read More >>

Based on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts,...  Read More >>

This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides...  Read More >>

The underlying principal of this handbook is to broaden the application of ethnographic filmmaking to suit a wide...  Read More >>

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Comprised of essays from some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, this is the first book to...  Read More >>

Comprised of essays from some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, this is the first book to...  Read More >>

This is the story of Cleopatra, a motion picture made in 1917; how it was made, how it was received, how it was...  Read More >>

This is the story of Cleopatra, a motion picture made in 1917; how it was made, how it was received, how it was...  Read More >>

This book is a ‘time-capsule’ of documentary film scholarship in the period between 2007 and 2016. Various topics...  Read More >>

Beginning documentary filmmakers haven't had a resource until now  Read More >>

The inspiring true story of a Girl Scout group set up in a homeless shelter in New York  Read More >>

As the inaugural volume in the Docalogue series, this book models a new form for the discussion of documentary film....  Read More >>

Lucid Dreaming is an unprecedented global collection of discussions with documentary and experimental filmmakers,...  Read More >>

The extraordinary and adventurous true stories of life as a wildlife documentary cameraman  Read More >>

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals. Contributors...  Read More >>

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals, looking...  Read More >>

The definitive book on the documentary form that will allow you to master the craft of documentary filmmaking. Focusing...  Read More >>

In our era of ‘fake news’, Stella Bruzzi examines the dynamism that results from reusing and reconfiguring raw documentary...  Read More >>

The definitive book on the documentary form that will allow you to master the craft of documentary filmmaking. Focusing...  Read More >>