While a storyboard can be a great tool for a documentary filmmaker, it's worth noting that, for some documentaries, some of your footage may come from events that spontaneously occur in front of you.
We were both part of some documentary back in those wonderful healthy days, and when I arrived on the "set" (a dune by the sea in Montauk), although the weather was fine, there was thick gloom.
Though it is not about Nazism or its legacy per se and does not specifically mention the war, its scrupulously nonjudgmental portrait of warped mentalities during the early postwar period says more between the lines and by extrapolation about the legacy of Nazism than some documentaries of the Nazizeit that comparably prize objectivity.
Check the television schedules of some relevant documentary channels, look around for DVDs or some older documentaries can also be found on places like YouTube.
I can't say why the History Channel felt the need to run another Kennedy story; there are already hundreds of books, scores of documentaries — some of them produced by the History Channel — and a fair number of docudramas that cover overlapping ground.
Mr. Epstein's film is part of a surge of documentaries, some shown on television, some released in theaters, that try to answer Lennon's plea while demonstrating just how tricky the pursuit of cinematic truth can be.
The Boston Globe, with the highest level of vitriol, said: "Killing Jesus is a shallow telling of the Jesus story, with no more distinction than you might find in the generic reenactments of some historical documentary".
Field Notes is a new series featuring hosts and producers of some of our documentaries.
There's virtually no limit to the types of stories you can tell with these sorts of documentaries — some are funny, some are sad, some are exciting, and some are a mixture of all three.
Some of the documentaries surprised us; the Russell Brand [Newsnight] interview.
