The documentary appropriately avoids reenactments and dives straight into unearthing clips, documents and in-person interviews.
The Kennedy Library and Museum's reflect all of that and more; displays filled with campaign paraphernalia, newspaper front pages, video clips, documents and other assorted, historic ephemera -- even the coconut on which Kennedy scratched a message to rescuers in the South Pacific after his PT 109 was cut in half by a Japanese destroyer.
Most people share videos of their pets and children; short clips documenting travels around the world were popular as well.
Ms. Gazit juxtaposes interviews and newsreel clips documenting the pill's social impact with the story of its invention.
In Libya, the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and its supporters went so far as to accuse Al Jazeera of fabricating video clips documenting protests from whole cloth.
A guide dressed like an archaeologist who could easily feature in an Indiana Jones movie takes visitors through a multimedia environment full of video clips documenting the excavation of the site.
Later on Thursday, the Egyptian activist Wael Eskandar posted a link on Twitter to a compilation of graphic, disturbing video clips documenting incidents of police brutality since the election of President Mohamed Morsi last year put the security forces nominally under civilian control.
The activists initially came together to build an archive of clips documenting the street protests of early 2011, Ms. Said said, but then, struck by the lack of independent reporting on the post-Mubarak government, they began to make their own reports, often incorporating video recorded on phones.
Because it all happened before social media, which enabled girls to organise into "fandoms", there are no Instagram or Vine clips documenting gaggles of girls bawling along to Wannabe outside hotels and airports, but the memories will be with them for life.
These images and earlier black-and-white clips documenting Mr. Alpert's tenure, with Timothy Leary, at an LSD-fueled communal experiment in Millbrook, N.Y., make you wonder about the novel Mr. Updike could conjure from this material, and about what epic follies and glories might be distilled in an unlikely Hollywood Ram Dass biopic, told with a reckless sociological sweep.
Before the crew admitted to BBC News that it was fiction — shot in Malta in May on a set used for the movie "Gladiator," with grants from the Norwegian Film Institute and Arts Council Norway — the footage had been viewed millions of times, featured in news reports and added to a vast archive of clips documenting the war that is maintained by Syrian activists.
