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David Lyle shares his vision of how factual programming is having to adapt to audiences as they get used to different types of storytelling.

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We all know the situation when interview partners continuously try to avoid answering simple questions. But for investigative filmmakers it can be essential to get answers. See how Jeremy Paxman did it.

In order to really reach a global audience it is very important to offer subtitles. [...]

As soon as you are planning to shoot a doc in a foreign country production costs i.e. for calling locals or team members can explode. But there are plenty of solutions to save money.

There are as many different types of music documentaries as there are styles of music, [...]

Aside from atrocities and brutality, war means business. Not only to the arms industry but [...]

Acclaimed filmmaker, Nicolas Philibert shares his very particular and personal approach to documentary. In 2001, [...]

There are as many different types of music documentaries as there are styles of music, but one of the first instances of music actually being combined with “film” in the [...]

Aside from atrocities and brutality, war means business. Not only to the arms industry but also to film producers and military propaganda units (a recent film that dealt with war [...]

Although the terms Direct Cinema and Cinéma vérité are often described as being quite similar, they are in fact two opposing ways in trying to meet the same goal – [...]

Fake documentaries aka Mockumentaries & Pseudo-Documentaries. The documentary genre is as old as the history of the movies – the first images put to film weren’t exactly “art stuff” but [...]

German-born Pina Bausch (1940 – 2009) was a pioneer in the international world of dancing. Combining modern dance with elements of pantomime, song or acting, she is regarded as the inventor of the so-called „Tanztheater“.

This Academy Award 2012 nominated film centers on environmentalist Daniel McGowan, a former member of the “Earth Liberation Front”, a worldwide collective of eco-guerillas.

180 Film: You like Hitler? You don’t believe in God? Good chance you are pro-abortion then!

The Big Vinny is another great short doc by the makers of the “California is a place” series and portrays “Big Vinny” Rich Lieberman, a former used car salesman from Alameda: “Every terrible expression you’ve ever heard about car salesmen – it’s true!