The Birth of Controversy The first important and coherent motion picture made is also one of the most controversial ever. The Birth of a Nation directed by D.W. Griffith was the first full length feature film and the first blockbuster created earning about 18 million dollars after its release i...
An antagonistic bartender defends the virtues of motion pictures to a photography purist, and later a JFK assassination conspiracy theorist starts a conversation with a girl by mentioning an "anthropology of ethnographic film" class they had both taken. ...
Unlike other documentary filmmakers who endeavour to depict events that are occurring without the intervention of the filmmaker (Bakri's Jenin, Jenin for example) Moore and Broomfield are antagonists for their own films, they personally create scenes for the purposes of the film with what has been described as "ambush journalism" by critics. ...
