<span>A documentary is a category of film expression which is intended to depict reality. The first documentary was created by Robert Flaherty. He helped explore the Pacific Northwest. He decided to make a documentary about the Inuit people, although it wasn't exactly a documentary because a lot of the shots he set up. A documentary isn't suppose to be manipulated.</span>
A document is when you use photos or interviews with people that were involved in real events to provide a factual report on a certain subject. The first official documentary film was created by Robert Flaherty's "Nanook of the North." in 1922. an ethnographic perspective of the harsh life of Canadian Inuit Eskimos living in the Arctic. ( although some of the films scenes of obsolete customs were staged.)
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