Unit 12 Documentary

Examples of early documentary: - Man of Aran (1934) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIWYXnxz968

In this blend of documentary pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.

- A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner (1911)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D581TDHFpmE

A coal miner says good-bye to his wife and children, and heads off to work. He reaches the mine, prepares his lamp, and then descends into the mine along with some other workers. As he and the others work inside the mine, the coal is sent to the surface, where others at the mining site are ready to process the coal and to prepare it for shipp

- Night Mail (1937)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7SD6qt0EFI

Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight. Triumph of the Will Year of Production - 1935 Director - Leni Riefenstahl Synopsis - The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany