A New History of Documentary Film - Jack C. Ellis, Betsy A. McLane - Google Books

https://books.google.de/books?id=JyJ2FYaaFYcC&pg=PA21#v=onepage

A thorough and definitive survey/history of documentary films. Concentrating mainly on the output of the US, the UK, and Canada, the authors outline the origins of the form and then show its development over the next several decades. The book is completely…