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Question of the Day (QOTD) is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a film/TV-related question that we put to you, the reader. The comments section below is like the feedback box at work; except, in this example, we actually read what you write and care about what you have to say.
Today there has been an ongoing discussion at the “office” of where documentaries lie in the world of movie making. It all stemmed from this out of the blue statement, “Documentaries aren’t movies”. Maybe it was throwing shade at my recent review of the punk documentary Another State of Mind, maybe it wasn’t. But nonetheless it triggered a lively conversation that we want to extend to you.
So the question I ask today is: Are documentaries considered movies?
- a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a theater or on television; a motion picture.
So what about you, folks? Are documentaries considered movies?
I’ll see you in the trenches.
