Visual Journalism

Remembering Documentary Moments

Looking back at television’s more than 50-year history, the “golden years” for documentaries on both the networks and the affiliates came during a 20-year period beginning in the mid-1960’s and…

Documentary Filmmakers Decide How to Present Compelling Evidence

Using film to tell a story changes nearly everything.
Indivisible: Eau Claire, South Carolina

Indivisible: Eau Claire, South Carolina

Scott Trent peers inside Monteith School, the oldest black school structure in South Carolina Eau Claire High School color guard practicing a routine Toliver’s Mane Event barber shop Parishioners at…

Striking a Balance Between Filmmaking and Journalism

At ‘Frontline,’ the producers and their vision are front and center.

Documentary Journalism Vanishes From Network and Local Television

Withdrawal of advertising and emergence of news magazines were among the factors that killed it.

Photojournalism at a Crossroads

Technology, culture and economics will determine its future.

Documenting Democracy in America

The Indivisible project portrays grassroots activitiy in 12 communities.

Revealing Afghanistan

Chris Steele-Perkins captures a people’s grace and culture.

Fall 2001: Introduction

At a time when so much of journalism is quicker, shorter and hyped to grab the public’s presumed short-attention span, the documentary—with its slower pace and meandering moments—is finding receptive…

Using Documentaries to Move People to Action

Films serve as powerful catalysts for the Television Race Initiative.