Documentary Essay Examples and Topics

I strongly agree with you on this. First of all, let me introduce myself. I am an Asian girl who was raised up in China and currently study at Penn State Abington. After reading your article, I went and watched ‘Miss Representation’ film, looked at…

Stereotyping has been a major issue in both gender, for male and females. There has been several documentation and films that shows the different effects associate with stereotyping. Nowadays, the equality of gender must be observed and break the state of stereotyping to prevent the…

Women have always been treated as second class in society. Equality between men and women has been skewed throughout history, and mankind never seems to get it correctly. Women have been fighting for decades now for the right to be equal members of society. According…

This story is about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for years, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The…

Abstract After watching The True Cost, the knowledge I have obtained is that it’s evident that the success of major clothing brands are fueled by low-level workers from developing countries. These workers are suffering at the expense of their employers and due to the low…

After watching The Birth of Nation, I couldn’t make my mind about how I feel about this movie. Although The Birth of Nation was made more that one hundred years ago it still has the power to both captivate and horrify the viewer. This movie…

Abstract From the views of National Geographic, stress is a killer. Stress is a disease that can affect you in unimaginable ways, clogging arteries, restricting blood flow, affecting the heart, obesity in the torso, killing brain cells, unraveling chromosomes, and can even cause a person…

The fast food sector is one of the largest sectors of the US economy. Companies like Burger King, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, McDonald’s and KFC have become well-known names. Each of these companies has a similar mission statement: it serves a quick meal at very low…

In today’s society, fast food has become a large part of many American’s lives. The rising range of obese individuals makes us need to draw a correlation between the rise in fast food and obesity. In the film Super Size Me, most obese individuals don’t…

The Four Risks of Health The four risks that Mc Diet can contribute to fatty liver, obesity, heart diseases, high level of cholesterol. Fatty liver is the stage when liver is not able to process fat anymore. If the liver can not process fat anymore,…

Ethnic Notion is a documentary based on the origins and consequences of African American culture. It explains the deep-rooted stereotypes of African Americans from the 1820s to the Civil War period. This documentary explains the origin of the popular depictions of African American stereotypes such…

The Documentary Before the Flood go through this issue of climate change and global warming issue and how this climate change is affecting the Nature. They focus on ice, the sweeping views of earth, seeing the rushing waterfalls in the glaciers, and, massive land mines…

The documentary begins with a reflection about “The Garden of Earthly Delights” painted, by Bosch, which shows “a paradise that has been degraded an destroyed”. Climate change is a danger that has the potential to do that to our Earth. In the documentary, newly appointed…

The world you know today may not be the world your children and grandchildren will get to live and experience. Through out time color and life, itself begins to fade just by the simple fact that we don’t know how to take care of Earth….

The documentary, Deadly Deception, is based on the true story about the Tuskegee Study which was carried out in Macon County, Alabama over a forty year period. Sanctioned by the United States Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute, and paid for with taxpayer dollars,…

In this modern world, social media already plays a significant role in our day-to-day lives and it’s certainly affecting the way we interact with the real world. The modern technology indeed changed people’s lives, we became dependent on what technology can offer to us which…

The documentary “13th” displays how America has merely given slavery a new coat of paint and a new fancy name, imprisonment. The 13th Amendment says that slavery shall not be permitted except as a punishment for a crime committed and Congress can enforce this law…

Before the Flood is a documentary about the impacts of climate change, it is 1 hour and 36 minutes long and was released in 2016. National Geographic, producer Fisher Stevens and actor Leonardo DiCaprio come together to chronicle DiCaprio’s exploration of how climate change is…

I was triggered after roughly 10 minutes into the documentary. The constant feelings I had were sadness and anger. I knew some aspects of US history; however, the film opened my eyes more to the subjects; of racism and inequality which people are still experiencing,…

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, writer and a director of “Miss Representation.” In her documentary she argues that mainstream media and culture play a part to the under-representation of women in place of power and authority. The younger generation of girls is targeted audience. The documentary is…

This choice was purely based on its scientific nature, since Part I was highly concentrated on cultural and creative aspects. This is a polarised perspective from even the conference watched. This documentary also incites interest just by its title, because everyone has their own perspective…

 For many decades, going to war has been looked at as a way to make profit. The impact that war has on humans and the environment is absolutely horrific. The way so many countries value money and power over people and peace is disgusting and…

Documentary films are a powerful tool in spotlighting and drawing attention to social issues and problems. 13TH is a title to Ava Du Vernay’s 2016 documentary that focuses on the exploitation of the lope holes on the thirteenth amendment of America’s constitution by some able…

America is home to five percent of the world’s population and twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners (Lee). Starting with explaining that America has the highest leading numbers of incarcerated people in a land that is supposed to be free, the documentary “13TH” goes into…

“That’s why when someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the…

The film conducts a concrete research into the American system and comes up with shocking statistics. The director relies on several liberals and conservatives whom she interviews to (replace-to) dig in about the African American society has been affected by the prison complex in the…

In the mid-1960s, Malcolm X stated, ‘In the event that you stick a blade nine crawls into my back and haul it out three inches, that it not advance. Regardless of whether you haul it such a distance out, that isn’t advance. Progress is mending…

The documentary Babies follows four children and their journey from newborns to one-year olds. These babies come from different cultures and distant countries, Ponijao from Opuwo, Namibia, Mari from Tokyo, Japan, Bayar from Bayanchandmani Mongolia, and Hattie from San Francisco, California. The film shows how…

The documentary, Waiting for Superman, was eye opening and emotional to me. This film impacted me greatly as a teacher. I was also surprised the amount of empathy I felt for these children whom I have never met. I can interpret that the title of…

Introduction It has now been eight years since the Oscar-winning film ‘The Cove’ sent the small, isolated community of Taiji into the midst of an ever-growing controversial debate surrounding the slaughter of 2047 dolphins and the captivity of 58 dolphins for human entertainment over the…

The Cove documentary works to give logistical evidence against the corrupt practices in Taiji. The background information on what occurs in Taiji that the public isn’t aware of, is explored and explained much further as the film progresses. It is argued that little action has…

Introduction From training dolphins for the famous American TV Series, Flipper, to now being an activist for these mammals, Ric O’Barry has been playing a major role in trying to uncover a dirty secret that is performed by the Japanese fishermen. “The Cove”, an Oscar-winning…

Introduction The prime focus of this essay is to discuss the re-enactments of documentaries. For the purpose of analysis, two documentaries were selected that includes The Cove (2009) which is directed by Louis Psihoyos and Bowling for Columbine (2002) directed by one of the most…

A specific ideological understanding and declaration of solidarity with the goal of radical social-political transformation. “We realized that the important thing was not the film itself but that which the film provoked” – Fernado Solanas (1969). Social documentaries excel at telling complex societal problems and…

New discoveries are necessary in instigating one’s personal growth, as they often lead to reformed perceptions, in turn encouraging the development of new values and beliefs. Simon Nasht’s documentary Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History (2004) and Tim Winton’s short, coming of age story…

The documentary, “Yellow is Forbidden” published to be view at the Vancouver Film Festival on October 10, 2018 director Pietra Brettkelly featured a Chinese fashion designer, Guo Pei demonstrates her journey and challenges she had overcome to host her first ever runway show in Paris….

Roger Scruton’s documentary “Why Beauty Matters” evaluates post-modernist art culture through a perspective that assumes art has become a sort of “standardised degradation”. It can be assumed Scruton believes postmodernism is a ‘cult of ugliness’; arguing the importance of transcendental nature of beauty. Despite these…

We may have not practiced our undergrad degree, but I feel proud that you were able to find your niche in the BPO industry and doing excellently at it! As I was reading your reply to Arden’s comment, I was reminded that our undergrad course…

The documentary is based on “Theatre Of India”. The documentary is very informative it tells us about the history of theatre that how all this was started. Our theatre was started with Sanskrit drama ages ago they said about Kalidas and Bhas these were the…

“No More Tears Sister” is a 2005 documentary on the life and legacy of Dr. Rajani Thirangama- a revolutionary left-leaning Sri Lankan activist. She was a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and extended her support to them both within the country…

“Roger and Me” is a documentary produced by controversial documentary producer Michael Moore in 1989 about the aftermath of the GM factory closures in a city where 30,000 people worked for GM. Moore seeks to highlight the corruption of the auto industry, via General Motors,…

Disgusted. That word can’t even begin to describe how I feel. After watching the film An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, it made me want to do even more to lower my carbon footprint, and the impact that I have on the environment. Before watching…

Undoubtedly, the most popular streaming content platform in the world market is Netflix, so much so that we have created an updated list of the best series of Netflix 2018 , because millions of users worldwide use this service to watch movies, documents and Serial…

A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet is both a story of warning and a triumphance. The documentary focuses on people who have stopped forest deforestation and rescued baby seals, but filmmaker Mark Kitchell also describes the imminent dangers of climate change….

The film, “Prince Among Slaves” written and produced by Andrea Kalin, retells the dramatic life story of a stoic leader named Abdul Rahman. The film begins with Abdul Rahman, a 26-year-old Muslim prince, leading a military campaign for his father who ruled over the West…

To complete the exploration task and to discover new things related to our world outside of the classroom, I chose to watch a documentary that I wanted to see a long time ago. So, I finally used my Netflix account to make this thing possible….

FBI Documentary paper Like a lot of other people, I thought the FBI were the coolest people ever due to what I saw on television. I thought they had cool gadgets and secret technological devices that helped them solve cases easily. Growing up watching shows…

The Mentality of Grizzly Man There is a lot to be said about a man who willingly travels out alone into the Alaskan wilderness for grizzly bears, whether or not people find him brave or stupid. Inside the mind of someone so willing to go…

Out of the darkness and into the light The 2013 documentary Blackfish Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and produced by Manny Oteyza targets the treatment and public relations of Sea World and other marine wildlife parks in the same business. The documentary starts with the capture…

What is this sweetener that many unknowingly crave in their modern diet? The sweet component known as sugar has successfully been rooted in today’s society a necessity. An ingredient that most everyone loves. Some may even claim that consuming sugar equates to the same effects…

Cane Toads is about how cane toads were introduced to Australia from Hawaii and the effect they have left on the area, including the people that live there. Back in the 1930s sugar cane farmers had a problem with cane grubs and an option presented…

At first glance, Michael Moore’s “Where to Invade Next” seems to be a comedic movie based on the insanity of U.S history, but it turns out to be a powerful film filled with a humanizing vision of better solutions, possibilities on how the US shares…

The documentary basically tells one of the major global issues which is hunger mentioned as a tragedy of all humankind. Even though, all world thinks how to feed themselves, some parts of world are severely struggling with death risk due to the starvation. Today, in…

The documentary is entitled Men of Rock which was produced by the company named British Broadcasting Company(BBC). It was presented to us by Professor Iain Simpson Stewart, a British Geologist. The film was mostly filmed in Scotland where James Hutton conducted his research. This film…

The Documentary ‘My Scientology Movie’ was written by and stars Louis Theroux, and directed by John Dower. Theroux had been wanting to make a documentary on the church of Scientology for many years before the making of ‘My Scientology Movie’ initially wanting to see a…

Food Inc. Food Inc. is a very enlightening going on and talking about how there are very few companies in the meat industry that control almost all of the meat, how it’s processed, and how it looks. The main reason for this is the fast…