Watchin' The Detectives

                                       We're going to be taking a deep dive into what makes a documentary a documentary. Which, as we write this, we're realizing it's not as easy to put to words as it is to know one when you see one.  In the broadest sense of the word, a documentary is any audio/visual media meant to document an occasion or to inform the viewer on a given subject. That much we can say for certain. There are as many ways to achieve this end as there are subjects to inform the viewer about, and the objective truth is not always the aim. So let's take a look at a few types of documentaries so we can start to get closer to the heart of what makes a documentary a documentary.  Part 2. News, Current Events and the Dreaded Long Form Infomercial.   For nearly as long as we've had moving pictures, current events shorts/newsreels/infomercials have been around. The mo...

                                                                               We're going to be taking a deep dive into what makes a documentary a documentary. Which, as we write this, we're realizing it's not as easy to put to words as it is to know one when you see one.  In the broadest sense of the word, a documentary is any audio/visual media meant to document an occasion or to inform the viewer on a given subject. That much we can say for certain. There are as many ways to achieve this end as there are subjects to inform the viewer about, and the objective truth is not always the aim. So let's take a look at a few types of documentaries so we can start to get closer to the heart of what makes a documentary a documentary.  First up: Nature Documentaries.  The great great...

Episode 4 of "The History of Weapons" Produced by ZDF Studios *Continued from Episode 3  Episode 4: Weapons for All                                                                                                                         Automatic Kalashnikov, or "AK-47"                                         https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nemo5576    This episode covers the weapons that were taken up by the average foot soldier pressed into service by a lord, to protect their village or lands and resistance fighters, or what call now with a bit of malice: we now cal...