Essays on Documentary

Street Fight “Street Fight” is a documentary film which revolves around the mayoral elections of Newark, New Jersey in 2002. The movie has been directed by Marshall Curry, who appears to be biased in favor of Cory Booker, then 32-year old. The Street Fight is...

A social issue is a problem that influences a large number of the people within society. It is often a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as a morally right. Social issues are affecting the world as we get on with our...

‘Best of Enemies’ revolved around two highly intelligent yet complete polar opposites in ideologies William F. Buckley Jr., a conservative, and Gore Vidal, a liberal, as they battle out their wits during the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968. They genuinely despised each other, as...

For better or for worse, my life revolves around surfing. I often show up for work at Las Olas HQ fifteen minutes late and slightly wet. I’m more concerned about running out of surf wax than I am about running out of shampoo. The point...

Nearly sixty years after John Steinbeck put pen to paper and wrote the series of San Francisco News articles that would later inspire The Grapes of Wrath, a renowned singer-songwriter from Freehold, New Jersey wrote a beautifully tragic song about the anguish of poverty and...

Throughout the documentary Babies, the audience is given an insight on four different cultures: Africa, Mongolia, Japan, and the United States. The film focuses on the development and cultural traditions of bearing and raising and infant. According to Piaget, this entire film is documenting the...

Fire in the Blood, a documentary by Dylan Mohan Gray, investigates on the injustice of AIDS treatment in Africa, millions of who die every year just because they cannot afford the antiretroviral drug that could have saved their lives. The documentary portrays how western pharmaceutical...

The True Cost documentary which is filmed and directed by Andrew Morgan is concentrated on fast fashion. This documentary reflects on numerous aspects of the apparel industry from production, the life of a low wage worker, and the global effect of cheap clothing’s. These workers...

Released in 2016, Before the Flood, presented by National Geographic and directed by Fisher Stevens, as well as produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, tells the very real tale of our current ecological catastrophe. The film and its message are directed towards those who are...

With a user base of nearly one third of the global population, Facebook is the largest social networking platform on the internet. Guided by their corporate manifesto of constructing a more connected and open world, Facebook connects individuals across digital space through their online profiles;...

A documentary is a film which incorporates factual topics. These films have a variety of aims; to record events and ideas, inform and persuade viewers, convey opinions, and create public interest. A number of common persuasive techniques are used in documentaries to achieve these aims....

“Sick Around America” My first reaction after watching the episode of frontline, “Sick around America” is really scandalous since I was not aware of how the American healthcare system worked. For instance, the case of Melinda Williams whom was four months pregnant and was bleeding,...

The documentary Life and Debt represents a real example of the impact economic globalization can have on a developing country. Whenever I thought about Jamaica, I only considered it as a tropical, beach-like atmosphere and a tourist destination. I never took the time and considered...

The story of India: The story of India is a BBC documentary series which was written and presented by historian Michael Wood. This series encapsulates the history of India. Like other great civilizations—Greece or Egypt, for example—over the millennia it has enjoyed not just one...

Composers represent the ultimate powerlessness of ordinary people through the ways in which they explore the complex and dynamic relationship between people and politics. Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” written in a communist fearing period within American history known as the “Red Scare”, aims to...

Miss Representation Reflection Paper The Miss Representation documentary taught me more about the issues on women in media as well as the challenges they face within themselves and from males. As a student trying to get into the PR/entertainment industry I felt like this film...

America Before Columbus is an informative history documentary that shows the life in Europe, prior to the European exploration, the Columbian exchange and its impact, and the conditions after the Columbian discovery of America. It does a wonderful job of putting basic factual information that...

Central banking systems are highly complex, secretive, and powerful. In the documentary “Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve,” filmmaker James Corbett aims to provide an easily understandable overview of the United States Central Bank. In plain English, Corbett explores the fundamental questions...

In this film review we were asked to watch the film named “And we knew how to dance”. This documentary film was released in 1994 and was directed by Maureen Judge. The production of this documentary film was done by the National film board of...