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A documentary film is generally a movie which attempts to document the different aspects of reality. Although the scenes used in a documentary have carefully been chosen and arranged, the lines are not scripted at all and the people that appear in it are not actors. Occasionally, a documentary film could rely on a voice-over narration which describes what are in the scenes or the footage. There are also some films where the footage could speak for itself. Usually, documentary films include interviews with those individuals who appear in the film.

Actually, documentary films were the earliest films in history. The earliest documentary films features single shots of different actual events like a boat that was leaving shore. Back then, they were called “actuality” films. The other forms of early documentary films include propaganda films, like the famous movie Triumph of the Will by Leni Reifenstahl that made Adolph Hitler appear heroic. Another type of early documentary films would be the cinema verité back in the 1950s. A cinema verité does not have any narration: the subject is simply followed by the camera.

In recent years, the genre of documentary film has gained more popularity and has become more high profile, although it is still a lot less popular compared to the genre of action and adventure films. A lot of the documentary films made today that are shown in TV or in the big screen have a political or some other controversial agenda like Fahrenheit 911, An Inconvenient Truth and Super Size Me.

However, for those who make a living on making documentary films, it is important to make sure that they are able to have new ideas on what to use as subjects for their documentary films. Because of the growing consciousness of the society today for the preservation of nature and the environment, some filmmakers have made documentaries about global warming, Linux mousepads (Linux), climate change and recycling. There are also those choose to feature the different aspects of nature such as forests, plantations, trees and their leaves and bark, flowers, and other types of vegetation. A lot have even used animals and insects such as bugs and lizards and their significance in nature, the ecosystem and the environment.

In an effort to publicize their creations, some producers of documentary films have even made use of giving out Linux mousepads that have the people, the events and the creatures in their films printed on them.