To tell the truth a history of documentary film

2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
digital optical
video file DVD video all regions

MPAA: Not rated
CHVR: Not rated

History of documentary film [DVD]
To tell the truth. Working for change
To tell the truth. The strategy of truth
Working for change, documenting hard times (1929-1941)
Strategy of truth, documentary goes to war (1933-1945)
Documenting hard times (1929-1941)
Documentary goes to war (1933-1945)

Episode titles on container: Working for change : documenting hard times (1929-1941); The strategy of truth : documentary goes to war (1933-1945)
Originally produced in 2012 as episodes 2 and 3 of a 6-episode documentary film series; later broadcast on television
Special features: Interviews: Alec Baldwin on the importance of documentaries (3 min.); Agnes Varda on the making of documentaries (19 min.); Jeffrey Richards on the British documentaries of the 30s and 40s (15 min.); Jo Fox on German and British propaganda (12 min.); David Culbert on German and American documentary propaganda (10 min.) ; Film historian Kevin Brownlow on Leni Riefenstahl and German propaganda (13 min.)
Editors, Cindy Kaplan Rooney (Working for change), Omry Maoz (The strategy of truth) ; music, Teese Gohl ; camera, Joel Shapiro, Michael Miles
Working for change: Narrator, Alec Baldwin ; interviewees, Leo Hurwitz, Pare Lorentz, John Grierson, Leo Seltzer
The strategy of truth: Narrator, Alec Baldwin ; interviewees, Kevin Brownlow, William Greaves, Mary Louise Jennings, Charles Wolfe
DVD; all regions; widescreen presentation
Closed-captioned

Working for change / director, Calvin Skaggs (56 min.)
The strategy of truth / director, David Van Taylor (56 min.)
Bonus documentaries. Let there be light / directed by John Huston (1948) (58 min.) ; The autobiography of a "Jeep" / directed by Joseph Krumgold (1943) (10 min.)

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Baldwin, Alec, 1958- narrator, interviewee (expression)
Brownlow, Kevin, interviewee (expression)
Culbert, David Holbrook, interviewee (expression)
Fox, Jo, interviewee (expression)
Gohl, Teese, composer (expression)
Greaves, William, interviewee (expression)
Grierson, John, 1898-1972, interviewee (expression)
Hurwitz, Leo T., 1909-1991, interviewee (expression)
Huston, John, 1906-1987, film director
Icarus Films Home Video, publisher
Jennings, Mary-Lou, interviewee (expression)
Krumgold, Joseph, 1908-1980, film director
Lorentz, Pare, interviewee (expression)
Lumiere Productions, production company
Pomeroy, Ali, film producer
Richards, Jeffrey H., interviewee (expression)
Seltzer, Leo, interviewee (expression)
Skaggs, Calvin, film director
Taylor, David Van, film director
Varda, Agnès, 1928-2019, interviewee (expression)
Wolfe, Charles, 1949- interviewee (expression)