Expository
Documentary History
Moore & Participatory
Influences of Michael Moore
Popular Documentaries/Docu Series
100

The film 13th has a through line of the impact of this profession in continuing issues with the 13th amendment

What is The President?'

100

This documentary followed Alaskan Inuits and exposed their lifestyles through titled cards.

What is Nanook of the North?

100

This song played to contrast the images of a bunch of atrocities from The United States and create a sense of comedic irony in Bowling for Columbine.

What is "It's a Wonderful World"?

100

David Farrier started out as a journalist in his home country where

Where is New Zealand?

100

Gaining popularity on Netflix as the world went into lockdown we were fascinated by the world of exotic animals and Joe Exotic.

What is The Tiger King?

200

The film Blackfish used testimonies from former staff of this organisation

What is Seaworld?

200

I was technology that was pivotal in the development of the participatory sub genre.

What is Digital Reel/ What is Hand Cam?

200

Moore and two of his shot subjects in Bowling for Columbine went here for an example of Moore's ambush styled journalism.

What is KMart?

200

Louis Theroux's cinema released documentary looked into this Tom Cruise participating church

What is Scientology?

200

A television programme or film which takes the form of a serious documentary in order to satirize its subject.

What is a mockumentary?

300

Filmmaker Alex Gibney directed this film that exposed Scientology just before Louis Theroux attempted the same thing.

What is Going Clear?

300

A sub genre of documentary that is neither expository nor participatory, acting merely as a fly on the wall for viewers with no interviews.

What is observational?

300

This Musician was interviewed to get his views on the "Trenchcoat Mafia" in Bowling for Columbine

Who is Marilyn Manson?

300

A late-night Talk Show host who weaves news and comedy together.

Who is John Oliver?

300

I am often called the quintessential voice of God narrator, voicing a large amount of nature documentaries.

Who is Attenborough?


400

This film is likened to a sports story and is often confused for a Mockumentary as it exposes a humourous subject matter

What is King of Kong?


400

One of the first to coin the name documentary, defining it as, “the creative treatment of actuality.”

What is John Grierson?

400

I oppose Michael Moore's views to create the films dramatic narrative in Bowling for Columbine.

Who is Charlton Heston?

400

New Zealand Comedian who makes NZ Today a show where he interviews odd sorts around New Zealand.

Who is Guy Williams?

400

This documentary follows its teenage subject on his 2010 world concert tour

What is Justin Bieber: Never Say Never?

500

13th exposed many dubious laws under many governments, including this law written by ALEC and utilised by George Zimmerman

What is Stand your ground?

500

I am a development in the media that has now made documentaries more popular than ever before.

What is Netflix?

500

The age of the elementary child who shot another student in Bowling for Columbine

What is 7?

500

"One person, who has managed to shelter himself with money to keep his obsession going. But now, it's his life exposed. For once, it's him on camera." This is an example of what?

What is Personal Voiceover?


500

These celebrities bought a Football Club and released a documentary series about it on Disney Plus called Welcome to Wrexham

Who are Rob McHelhenny and Ryan Reynolds?