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2017

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	To tell the truth / Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor.
Publisher, Date:	Brooklyn, NY : Icarus Films, [2017]
Description:	2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical video file DVD video
Summary:	Working For Change: explores the birth of the social documentary, featuring interviews with several of the people who helped define and shape the form. The Strategy Of Truth: explores the role of film as propaganda during World War II, and the different forms it took in the US, the UK, and Germany. It also raises the central question of whether a film can be both documentary, reflecting the truth, and propaganda.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: Not rated.
Subjects:	Grierson, John, 1898-1972. Documentary films -- Production and direction -- History. Social movements -- United States -- History. Social movements -- Great Britain -- History. United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945. Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
Genre:	Nonfiction films. Documentary films.
Other Author:	Skaggs, Calvin, film director. Taylor, David Van, film director.
Notes:	Title from sell sheet. Special features: Alec Baldwin on the importance of documentaries; Agnes Varda on the making of documentaries; Film historian Kevin Brownlow on Leni Riefenstahl; Two WWII documentaries by John Huston. DVD; Widescreen presentation.
Contents:	Working for change -- The strategy of truth.
ISBN:	9786316817990 : DVD 6316817991 : DVD
Other Number:	971504063
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	645864
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Call Number:	DVD 070.18 To tell

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