title: The Documentary Moviemaking Course: The Starter Guide to Documentary Filmmaking
author:  Kevin J. Lindenmuth 
description: Kevin J. Lindenmuth has more than 25 years' experience in film and TV in New York and Detroit. He has produced more than a dozen independent features and seven documentaries, most of them broadcast on PBS television.
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  TRUE FILMS
  3.0
   
   
   
   
  This is the golden age of documentaries.
  Inexpensive equipment, new methods of distribution, and a very eager audi-
  ence have all launched a renaissance in non-fiction film making and viewing.
  The very best of these non-fiction films are as entertaining as the best Hol-
  lywood blockbusters. Because they are true, their storylines seem fresh with 
  authentic plot twists, real characters, and truth stranger than fiction. Most 
  true films are solidly informative, and a few are genuinely useful like a tool.
  The rise of documentaries and true cinema is felt not only in movie theaters, 
  but on network TV and cable channels as well. Reality TV, non-fiction stations 
  like the History Channel or Discovery, and BBC imports have increased the 
  choices in true films tremendously. There’s no time to watch them all, and 
  little guidance to what’s great.
  In this book I offer 200+ great true films. 
  I define true films as documentaries, educational films, instructional how-to’s