| LC control no. | sh 85088115 |
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| Topical heading | Documentary films |
| Variant(s) | Documentaries, Motion picture Documentary videos Factual films Motion picture documentaries Moving-pictures, Documentary |
| See also | Documentary mass media Nonfiction films Actualities (Motion pictures) |
| Found in | Britannica Micro. Beaver, F. Dict. of film terms, 1983. Katz, E. Film encyc., 1979. LC database, Sept. 24, 1987 (documentary film(s); nonfiction film; documentary; documentaries) Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988 (Documentaries and factual works. Use for films and programs which depict actual persons and/or events. Exclude frank historical re-creations, but do not attempt to judge the "truth" of the depiction in a film purporting to be factual or documentary in character) Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993: p. 77 (Documentary (Docu, Documentary Film, Factual Film, Non-Fiction Film, Realist Film); the term documentary is applied to and includes a vast array of different types of nonfiction or semifictional films; it stretches from the objective presentation of factual material to the subjective use of film for propaganda purposes) LC database, May 14, 2002 (title: motion picture documentaries) |
| Invalid LCCN | sh2001000814 |
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