Jack Seale This documentary sets out to explore inequality but can't resist hitching this huge, complex issue to a pair of charismatic outliers whose circumstances are probably too unusual to offer insight into more universal systemic issues.
Ms. Hershman Leeson's documentary sets out to correct the historical record and goes further, making the case that feminist art — varied, messy, conflicted and engaged with the times — is at the very center of that history.
And sadly, the leaps in this documentary set a very dangerous precedent.
This documentary, from Robert Stone, sets out to think the unthinkable and ask the unaskable: should we learn to stop worrying and love nuclear energy?
Such is the opening premise of "Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema," a documentary that sets out to establish its subject as one of the seminal tastemakers of contemporary movies.
This is perhaps an odd choice, because I haven't actually seen it as I find the subject matter too upsetting, but I've chosen it as an example of a documentary that sets out to change something material and succeeds.
In his new Channel 4 documentary, Oliver sets out to investigate the role played by advertising campaigns for sugary foods and drinks, the high quantities of sugar in so-called "healthy" products and the effect of diseases such as Type 2 diabetes.
As the brilliant 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet sets out, screenwriters and directors snuck in gay themes where they could, with Gore Vidal memorably writing Ben Hur and Messala as though they were lovers turned rivals (Charlton Heston had no idea).
