Afterward, Mr. Haley returned to documentary filmmaking, and it proved a shrewd move.
Stuart gradually returned to documentary via fact-based dramas such as The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979), about a 1911 New York fire that led to improved health and safety legislation.
After occasional episodic drama, including 1983's ill-fated Casablanca TV series with David Soul, and the pioneer-family drama series The Chisholms, he returned to documentary proper with films on famous poets, natural history and cinema.
She returned to documentary filmmaking with Tsuioku no dansu (2003; Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom), which chronicled the final days in the life of one of Kawase's mentors, Kazuo Nishii, a photographer and film critic suffering from cancer.
He is rumoured to be doing a film about the Vietnam war, and doesn't rule out a return to documentary and TV work, but he is keeping his mouth shut for the moment.
Kevin Macdonald, the British director best known for Touching the Void and The Last King of Scotland, has returned to documentary for his latest film.
More recently, she said, there has been a return to more documentary digital work.
Even at its most sensationalistic, it's a return to straightforward documentary storytelling.
Hickenlooper returned to the documentary format with Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003), an engrossing study of the veteran Los Angeles DJ, promoter and music obsessive Rodney Bingen- heimer.
