Monday, July 26, 2010

Documentary Films

One of the great source of pleasures for people who has insatiable passion for learning and knowledge is the availability in modern times not only of enormous information resources in written form but also in various fascinating media that aim to educate, entertain and stimulate all at the same time!

The vast, and still growing, number of documentary films that aim to capture life in its variegated facets is one such wellspring that never cease to amuse, and sometimes even shock, while simultaneously seeking to illuminate the mind. The documentary film genre, strictly speaking, belong to the non-fiction category. Its main object is to be factual, historical and/or empirical as much as possible.

Fictitious inventiveness, which is the realm of imagination, is shunned away totally. While the genre allows reasonable measure of interpretation on the materials that it provides, yet it must clearly distinguish between opinions and facts in its presentation of data and information for it to maintain integrity and objectivity.
Documentary films may focus on subjects as varied as nature, people, personalities, places, animals, culture, ideas, religion, philosophy, psychology, behavior, scientific research, time, space, and numberless other things (animate and inanimate), as well as any combination of them.

What follows is an example of personality documentary focused on Adolf Hitler. Learn and Enjoy!

Hitler - Mein Kampf (full documentary) - Part 1


Hitler - Mein Kampf (full documentary) - Part 2



No comments:

Post a Comment