Questions
Which of the following is considered the first documentary film?
- Nanook of the North
- The Battle of the Somme
- Moana
- Citizen Kane
Who is often credited as the father of documentary filmmaking?
- Robert Flaherty
- Dziga Vertov
- Joris Ivens
- Pare Lorentz
What was the name of the influential Soviet documentary film movement of the 1920s and 1930s?
- Vertov Group
- Kino-Pravda
- Dziga Vertov Group
- All of the above
Which of the following documentaries is known for its innovative use of observational cinema?
- The Blair Witch Project
- The Cove
- Grizzly Man
- Man with a Movie Camera
What was the name of the American government-sponsored documentary film unit created during the Great Depression?
- The Farm Security Administration
- The Civilian Conservation Corps
- The Works Progress Administration
- The National Film Board of Canada
Which documentary filmmaker is known for his trilogy of films about the American South?
- Frederick Wiseman
- Errol Morris
- Ken Burns
- Michael Moore
What was the name of the groundbreaking documentary series about the Vietnam War produced by PBS?
- The Vietnam War
- The World at War
- The Civil War
- Eyes on the Prize
Which documentary filmmaker is known for his controversial films about the tobacco industry and the Iraq War?
- Michael Moore
- Morgan Spurlock
- Robert Greenwald
- Davis Guggenheim
What was the name of the 2004 documentary film about the rise of the global food movement?
- Food, Inc.
- The Cove
- Gasland
- An Inconvenient Truth
Which documentary filmmaker is known for his films about the intersection of technology and society?
- Werner Herzog
- Errol Morris
- Frederick Wiseman
- Alex Gibney
What was the name of the 2018 documentary film about the Cambridge Analytica scandal?
- The Great Hack
- American Factory
- RBG
- Free Solo
Which documentary filmmaker is known for his films about the American criminal justice system?
- Laura Poitras
- Ava DuVernay
- Eugene Jarecki
- Joshua Oppenheimer
What was the name of the 2020 documentary film about the impact of climate change on the Arctic?
- Arctic
- Honeyland
- The Cave
- For Sama
Which documentary filmmaker is known for his films about the human condition and the search for meaning?
- Werner Herzog
- Wim Wenders
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Ingmar Bergman
What was the name of the 2022 documentary film about the life and career of the American singer Aretha Franklin?
- Respect
- Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
- Flee
- Attica