Introduction
A documentary is a movie that attempts to present events, people and places in real life for purposes of instructing or maintaining historical records (Aitken). Documentaries are characterized by carefully chosen and arranged scenes just like movies. Unlike movies, documentaries are not scripted and the people in a documentary are not actors. In most cases, documentaries rely on voice-over narration to explain events in a given footage. In other cases, the story in the documentary is told through interviews with the people featured.
Documentary analysis
The 1929 film, Man with a Movie camera by Vertov Dziga fits the description of a documentary for several reasons. First, ...
