Foreword: Why Documentaries Matter
Introduction: The Filmed Documentary. PART I: DOCUMENTARY VALUES. The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film / Bill Nichols
'I'll Believe It When I Trust the Source': Documentary Images and Visual Evidence / Carl Plantinga
'The Performance Documentary': The Performing Film-Maker, the Acting Subject / Stella Bruzzi
On Truth, Objectivity and Partisanship: The Case of Michael Moore / Douglas Kellner
CGI and the End of Photography as Evidence / Taylor Downing
Drawn From Life: The Animated Documentary / Andy Glynne
Dramadoc? Docudrama? The Limits and Protocols of a Televisual Form / Derek Paget
Ambiguous Audiences / Annette Hill
Life As Narrativised / Brian Winston
The Dance of Documentary Ethics / Pratap Rughani
Deaths, Transfigurations and the Future / John Corner. PART II: DOCUMENTARY PARADIGMS. Problems in Historiography: The Documentary Tradition Before Nanook of the North / Charles Musser
John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement / Ian Aitken
Challenges For Change: Canada's National Film Board / Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton
Grierson's Legacies: Australia and New Zealand / Deane Williams
New Deal Documentary and the North Atlantic Welfare State / Zoe Druick and Jonathan Kahanan
The Triumph of Observationalism: Direct Cinema in the USA / Dave Saunders
Russian and Soviet Documentary: From Vertov to Sokurov / Ian Christie
The Radical Tradition in Documentary Film-making, 1920s-50s / Bert Hogenkamp
Le Groupe des trente: The Poetic Tradition / Elena Von Kassel Siambani
Cinéma Vérité: Vertov Revisited / Genevieve Van Cauwenberge
Beyond Sobriety: Documentary Diversions / Craig Hight. PART III: DOCUMENTARY HORIZONS. Eastwards / Abe Mark Nornes
Africa N. / Frank Ukadike
Images From the South: Contemporary Documentary in Argentina and Brazil / Ana Amado and Maria Dora Mourao
'Roadblock' Films, 'Children's Resistance' Films and 'Blood Relations' Films: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Post-Intifada / Il Raya Morag
Sacred, Mundane and Absurd Revelations of the Everyday
Poetic Vérité in the Eastern European Tradition / Susanna Helke. PART IV: DOCUMENTARY VOICES. First-Person Political / Alisa Lebow
Feminist Documentaries: Finding, Seeing and Using Them / Julia Lesage
Pioneers of Black Documentary Film / Pearl Bowser
LGTBs' Documentary Identity / Christopher Pullen
Docusoaps: The Ordinary Voice as Popular Entertainment / Richard Kilborn
Reality TV: A Sign of the Times? / Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn. PART V: DOCUMENTARY DISCIPLINES. Anthropology: The Evolution of Ethnographic Film / Paul Henley
Science, Society and Documentary / Tim Boon
History Documentaries for Television / Ann Gray
Music, Documentary, Music Documentary / Michael Chanan
Art, Documentary as Art / Michael Renov. PART VI: DOCUMENTARY FUTURES. Documentary as Open Space / Helen de Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann
'This Great Mapping of Ourselves': New Documentary Forms Online / John Dovey and Mandy Rose
New Platforms for 'Docmedia': 'Varient of a Manifesto' / Peter Wintonick
Afterword: The Unchanging Question / Brian Winston.
