Andrew, Dudley, editor.
The Image in Dispute - Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography.
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. 1997. Several film experts chronicle how movies reflect and influence social and political changes.
Barnouw, Erik.
Documentary
2nd revised edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1993. An examination of the history of documentary film making from its invention by Louis Lumiere in 1895 to the present time.
Jacobs, Lewis, editor.
The Documentary Tradition from Nanook to Woodstock
. New York: Hopkinson and Blake, Publishers, 1971. Critics and filmmakers record the progress of the documentary since 1922.
Macdonald, Kevin, and Mark Cousins, editors.
Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary
. London: Faber and Faber, 1996. Filmmakers and critics look at the documentary film from its inception to 1995.
Nichols, Bill.
Introduction to Documentary
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. An introduction to the theory of documentary film.
