The grants are intended for documentary and film projects to advance American history and culture.
National Geographic prefers to call it a complement to the documentary, intended to prompt conversation about a part of the prison system seldom examined by camera crews.
Despite their attention to the facts, Ms. Bigelow and Mr. Boal both pointed out that "Zero Dark Thirty" remained a thriller and not a kind of documentary intended to stand up to nit-picking by historians.
Variously translated from Russian as One Sixth of the World, or sometimes A Sixth Part of the World, the film in question is a barnstorming state-of-the-nation documentary intended to gel the far-flung peoples of the young nation together into one tight revolutionary pack.
Architectural theory as a didactic or polemic pursuit (beyond De Architectura, which Vitruvius may have intended as a documentary effort) was launched in the Renaissance with Leon Battista Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria (1485).
Howard's much anticipated documentary, intended more for the uninitiated than for hard core fans, is difficult to watch without smiling, even if you've seen much of the footage before, and even if you were dismayed by the colorization of some classic clips.
But these were documentaries, intended for the long view, leaving dissection and analysis to the nightly newscasts.
Mr. Guttentag, a director of documentaries, said that he originally intended to do a documentary on campaigns but decided that he would never get the necessary behind-the-scenes access.
But it never occurred to me that "The Circle" was intended as a comprehensive documentary report or as anything but a highly distilled and aestheticized rendering of certain outrages.
