The beginnings of cinema came, of course, as the "Lumiere Brothers" and other pioneers of the seventh art put the camera in a fixed place to document one event at a time, such as leaving the factory and the train entering the station.

These short films set many cinematic rules that continued until now, but not a few years passed until these makers discovered that the truth alone was not worthy of documentation, and began making fictional or fictional films, but this did not disrupt documentary cinema as some imagine, but rather took They change and transform, but some have restricted them to a very small scale, which are educational films, or films that present information in a clear and direct way.

Despite this, documentary filmmakers are experimenting and changing the foundations of their very own cinematic genre, which committed itself to presenting facts without dramatic fiction, but the whole truth doesn't have to be boring, right?

Some of them made fun documentaries that provided interesting and interesting stories, perhaps more than some feature films.

Dear Zachary

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, produced in 2008, directed, written and edited by Kurt Quinn;

A sad and final message he writes about his friend Andrew Bagby, who was killed by his ex-girlfriend after ending his relationship with her, and after her arrest announced that she was pregnant, Quinn decided to immortalize his late friend in a documentary film and present him to his son to tell him about his father who would not see him, and how he was a nice and likable person From his friends and family.

The film began as a project only, to be shown to friends and family of Andrew Bajpee.

However, when events unfolded, Quinn decided to show the film publicly.

After watching the documentary, Representative Scott Andrews Peel presented Law No. 464 (C-464) (also known as the "Zachary Bill") to the Canadian Parliament.

The bill, which helps protect children in connection with bail hearings and custody disputes, has been signed, and Quinn donated all of the film's profits to a scholarship founded in the name of Andrew and Zachary Bajby.

The voice and the anger

"Sound and Fury" (2000) produced and directed by Josh Arenson, it follows the story of the Artnian family known for 3 generations of deaf people, with a focus on two brothers, Peter who is deaf and Chris who can hear, with their wives and children.

The film reveals that due to modern technology, it has become possible to treat the affected children, but, contrary to the expected, parents were not happy with this matter. Rather, they discuss during this film about the extent of the changes that will happen to young people and their loss of what they called "deaf culture."

And each of the brothers had to choose a different way of raising their children, focusing on the children's opinion on this matter as well.

The film was nominated for many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Friedman Capture

Capturing the Friedmans (2003) has a very frightening story behind its production;

The film, which began as a short work about stories of clowns on children's birthdays, opened the door to a terrifying search for a family of clowns who had committed numerous crimes of assaults and child sexual abuse.

Filmmaker Andrew Jarkey was first filming a short film, Just a Clown, about New York children's birthday party performers, including the famous clown David Friedman whose nickname was "Celie Bailey". During his research he learned that David Friedman's brother, Jesse, and his father, Arnold, pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse cases, so Jarkey interviewed some of the participating kids, and ended up making a movie focusing on Friedman and his sexual assaults;

Which led to his imprisonment after that and his suicide.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2003, and some Friedman victims and their families wrote to the Awards Committee in protest against the nomination and the disclosure of their identities during the film.

Searching for Sugarman

"Searching for Sugar Man" (2012) produced and directed by Malek Bin Jalloul, and reviews a very legendary journey in the search for an unknown singer in the United States, but it is the most famous in South Africa without his knowledge.

The film details the efforts made in the late 1990s by two art lovers in Cape Town to find out if the rumors about the death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez were true, and to discover what happened to him.

Rodriguez's music - which was never successful in the United States - became very popular in South Africa, although not much is known about it in that country, after it was accidentally transmitted via cassette tape from a visitor to the United States to South Africa.

The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary at the British Academy Film Awards in London, and two weeks later it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.