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documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

s with Wikipedia articles. The earliest documentary listed is ''

Fred Ott's Sneeze ''Fred Ott's Sneeze'' (also known as ''Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze'') is an 1894 Short film, short, black-and-white silent film shot by William Kennedy Dickson, William K.L. Dickson and featuring Fred Ott. According to the Library of ...

'' (1894), which is also the first motion picture ever copyrighted in North America. The term ''documentary'' was first used in 1926 by filmmaker

John Grierson John Grierson (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) was a Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film. In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert J. Flaherty's '' ...

as a term to describe films that document reality. For other lists, see :Documentary films by country and :Documentaries by topic.

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