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The first documentary was made by someone who couldn’t stop …
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The first documentary was made by someone who couldn’t stop being right.
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Documentary film grew from early actuality films, with Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922) often cited as an early landmark. The motive was to record reality.
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