Sentence examples for power of documentary from inspiring English sources

"Making that film completely opened my eyes to the power of documentary," Ms. Makepeace, 52, said on the phone from her home in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Theatre is changing all the time and one thing people have woken up to in recent years is the power of documentary theatre.

The power of documentary derives not from any set of formal procedures but from the relationship between the filmmakers and their subject.

But the shock, the fun, the power of documentary theatre derives from its claim on the truth, and the resulting trust of its audience.

"There are no rules," Mr. Pennebaker remarked during a panel discussion on Friday on the subject "representing reality". The power of documentary derives not from any set of formal procedures but from the relationship between the filmmakers and their subject.

But a festival like this one offers a sustained, concentrated exposure to the sheer emotional power of documentary filmmaking, its ability to communicate the drama embedded in human experience.

Asif Kapadia's superb film about Senna has once again been rewarded with silverware, picking up the Bafta for best documentary, and showing that the power of documentary-making, like film-making generally, resides to an unacknowledged extent in the editing.

And for those doubting the power of documentaries to have a social impact, "To Tell the Truth: A History of Documentary Film 1928-1946," from Cal Skaggs and David Van Taylor, should give them an idea.

I learned my own lessons about the power of documentaries and their censorship in 1980, when I took two of my films, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia and Cambodia Year One, to the US in the naive belief that the networks would want to air these disclosures of Pol Pot's rule and its aftermath.

By employing this distinct visual language (carried through from Guantánamo into its diaspora), my goal is to engage viewers in a manner that disrupts the typical subject/object power dynamic of documentary between those who look and those who are seen.

And designating a single villain completely misses the point and power of the documentary.