The Documentary

Before watching Babies: A Documentary I knew that all cultures worldwide had many differences and similarities. After watching this documentary I feel as if I was given a different insight on culture differences pertaining to child rearing practices and child development around the world. This film shows how the babies develop in terms of physical, social, emotional and cognitive skills. In the documentary you can see the resources that each of these four babies have access to and how…

acts of deviance. The documentary, The House I Live In, illustrates the world around the United States’s policies regarding illegal drugs from the perspectives of both deviant individuals and individuals who are not deviant. Throughout the documentary, several incarcerated individuals were introduced who participated in the deviant actions of selling or using illegal drugs. A common external factor between most of these individuals is…

Council of Britain has deemed the documentary “My Week as a Muslim” aired on Channel 4 was a prime example of racism and stereotype against the Muslim community rather than the thought-provoking educational piece it was intended to be. Through reading the article and personally watching the 40-minute long documentary, it becomes clear that it sheds clear connection drawn on various theories on religion and media, particularly focusing on the idea that with a documentary such as this, the…

just as is illustrate in the Peasant Family Happiness documentary, where it is seem as an opportunity to promote rural modernization and development. The Chinese government is not the only one gaining from urban resident travel to rural areas, the rural villages are as well. They want to promote modernization with the profits that the tourism industry brings to their village, which would encourage the continuous entrance of…

significance in the possible existence of extraterrestrial lives, my group and I collaborated to create a short documentary video on the extinction of an extraterrestrial civilization. In this collaborative film project, I contributed as both a director and a media producer, constructing the background and settings of the narrative and completing all post-production tasks. The documentary video describes an exploratory visit by a spaceship in the year 2120 to a planet named Vars, which greatly…

Making Sense of Documentary Photography In this article, the author explains about the strategies for subjecting photograph as a tool to capture historical event. The approach used is documentary photography, where the photograph is used as subject to historical evidence that reflected to the past events. Photographer can add a powerful interpretive title…

To what extent is Bernstein’s documentary film reliable? Sidney Bernstein’s film, German Concentration Camps Factual Survey is reliable to a moderate extent in portraying the treatment of inmates, attitudes of German civilians and actions of the allied soldiers. The film tries to depict as accurately as possible the horrors that occurred in the Nazi concentration camps during the liberation through the lenses of British, US and Soviet camera soldiers. The documentary uses a variety of shots and…

The Documentary, Our Daily Bread, is a 2005 documentary directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, which was filmed in Germany and Australia. Our Daily Bread explores the dramatic shift in our food production. It is, by far, not your typical documentary as it has no narrative; It shines light on how food production has changed first hand, by taking us directly to the factory 's which our food comes from. Our Daily Bread reveals the exact steps our food goes through before we get it. The images of large…

The documentary “Very Young Girls (Tween/Teen Sex Work)” by Nina Alvarez, gives us a deep perspective of the prostitution in New York City. It shows us the lives of many adolescents that for misfortune since very young ages have been victims of human trafficking. The documentary points out that the average ages for prostitution in New York are between the ages 13-and-14 years old. The main victims as the documentary shows are African-Americans. These girls are seduced, mistreated, and sold by…

The 2010 documentary “Bag It” criticizes the production and implementation of “needless” plastics in the modern age. Jeb Berrier takes the viewer around the world, following plastic waste from stores and homes to it’s final destination in growing landfills and open ocean waters. He strives for consumers to partake less in buying or using products with excessive plastics like toy containers, milk caps, and what he states as the worst offender, the plastic bag. Iɴᴛʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ This analysis will…