Essays on Documentary

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...

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...

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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;...

Introduction This film “Food, Inc”depicts the changes in the way people eat; choose their foods and the food systems in general. There are a lot of gray areas between consumers and food sources. Corporations are able to hide the truth about the quality and ethical...

Food, Inc., an American documentary film, examines the industrial production of meat, grains, and vegetables. The film concludes by claiming the entirety of our food industry is inhumane, and economically and environmentally unsustainable. The film continues to examine today’s industry by exploring the economic and...

The documentary “Food, Inc” is informative, but a slightly biased film that shows the development of the larger food trade. The film tries to show the bad results ensuing from opinions that are effective, but there’s an over-reliance on pathos in the facts. Created by...

‘Food, Inc’ is a documentary film that clearly highlights the important problems concerning food industries, problems that slowly developed and became massive. This film is a powerful arraignment of industrial production that uncovers the true facts about what we eat and how the food is...

Food Inc. is a documentary film by Robert Kenner. The production of the film involved many but the most notable is Michael Pollan, the author of the Omnivore’s dilemma. He acts as a consultant although the film features him. Produced by the Participant media, it...

‘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...

The documentary Trouble the Water is the story of Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband, Ninth Ward citizens of New Orleans, as they survive Hurricane Katrina. The movie opens with footage taken by Kim before the storm actually hits. In it, she goes around asking...

The World Before Her The documentary The World Before Her, created by Nisha Pahuja and premiered on PBS on September 16, 2013, is about girls growing up in India. It shows the conflicting values of tradition versus modernity in the country. It tells the stories...

Many of us want to be that person who wants to be part of the change. Maybe you speak up at rallies, go door to door spreading the word or join clubs and organizations that want to make a difference. But the most powerful way...

Film Review- My American Girls: A Dominican Story The documentary takes place in the 1970s in Brooklyn New York. It is about a Dominican household and tells the story of 1st generation Dominican immigrants and the process of acculturation that the children are going through...

Morgan Spurlock chose to make this narrative to research the junk food organizations, and the impacts of certain cheap food chains items, especially McDonald’s, for the sake of society. This documentary investigates the United States developing diabetes and diseases. Morgan chooses to eat only McDonald’s...

Even though the United States had problems during the Great Depression, the Japanese Americans were having far worse problems. The bombing of Pearl Harbor caused Japanese Americans to enter internment camps. The resettlement Executive Order 9066 issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was especially hard...

I chose to watch the documentary The Hunting Ground, which is a film that focuses on the staggering rates of sexual assault on college campuses. I chose to watch this film because I was writing my issue analysis paper on this exact problem, and I...

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...

“Into Thin Air” is about Jon Krakauer, who was originally hired to write an article about climbing Mount Everest for Outside Magazine, but then decided to experience the expedition himself due to dreaming about it since he was a kid. In the beginning, Krakauer states...

Why do people watch documentaries? Probably to obtain information visually. It is needed for documentaries to be informative and interesting to watch at the same time. Two interesting, informative documentaries Bowling for Columbine and Koyaanisqatsi. Yet, they are very different when it comes to conveying...

The 2004 Documentary Film, “Super Size Me” is filmed and directed by Morgan Spurlock. Born on November 7, 1970, the American filmmaker is known for his crazy experiments. In this particular documentary, Spurlock follows a 30-day period from February 1st to March 2nd, 2003 in...

What is this sweetener that many unknowingly crave in their modern diet? The sweet component known as sugar has successfully been rooted in today’s society a necessity. An ingredient that most everyone loves. Some may even claim that consuming sugar equates to the same effects...

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...

Dishonesty, as a vice, is universal and timeless; according to the Bible, the very first humans on earth committed the first sin of deception. Adam and Eve lied to God about whether they had eaten the fruit of the forbidden tree in the Garden of...

The evolution of an individual is enriched by their distinct surroundings. An individual’s past may impede discovery but the extent of discovery is dependent upon the individuals own enthusiasm and disposition to make discoveries and connections whether it be pre-meditated or unexpected and therefore may...

Text classification is the task of classifying un-labelled natural language documents into a predefined set ofcategories. Task of classification can depend on various factorslike structure of data,size of data processed etc. Many real worldproblems however need to consider a huge amount of data tobe classified...

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 documentary “They Call Us Monsters”, takes inside a segregated unit for juveniles being tried as adults in Sylmar Juvenile Hall and introduces to three teenagers awaiting trial where they spend their days and nights waiting to learn their fate for their violent and gang...

The “Under the Dome” documentary exposed the harshness of China’s air pollution crisis. It showed the damaging effects that it is having on the millions of people that inhabit the area and exposes the companies that are responsible for allowing it to happen. This stems...