Documentaries: Recommended Readings

USING DOCUMENTARIES IN THE CLASSROOM

©2009 Frank Baker 

• 5 Best Behind-the-Scenes Docs
• Mastering the Trick of Walking a Tightrope
• 6 Filmmakers Talk About Documentary Films in the Digital Age
• Documentary: A Definition for the Digital Age
• Analyzing Documentary
• Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary (ebook)
• Documentary and docudrama
• Beyond the textbook: documentaries as a tool for teaching
• How To Watch A Documentary
• Documentaries and the Power of the Image
• From Banished to Brother Outsider, Miss Navajo to An Inconvenient Truth: Documentary Films as Perspective-Laden Narratives
• Exemplary Introductory Critical Media Literacy Documentaries
• Using Docudramas To Teach History (The Social Studies, Jan/Feb 2005)