Documentary Essay Examples

Omaha Beach opening sequence “Saving Private Ryan” theme analysis. Steven Spielberg’s World War II epic, Saving Private Ryan, follows a small group of American soldiers led by Captain Henry Miller (Tom Hanks’ character) on a unique mission during the Normandy invasion of June 1944. Spielberg...

The documentary “How Hollywood Vilifies Arabs” is an example of ideological criticism that had a great deal of impact on me. It was a comprehensive and critical of the Arab representation in Hollywood; furthermore, the video also led me to think about how Arab people...

It is no surprise that a topic like unclaimed estates has produced a popular terrestrial daytime television programme. This legal peculiarity contains all of the key elements of any good drama; a life story with twists and intrigue and an unexpected financial reward at the...

Ryan McGarry wrote and directed Code Black: A Look into America’s Busiest ER in 2014. Ryan McGarry describes, This documentary by Ryan McGarry, a physician and filmmaker who shot “Code Black” while he was a resident at LA County General, tells us of another definition....

The porn industry is full of different emotions. A 2015 documentary, Hot Girls Wanted directed by Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus tells us about the women who have been in the industry for ten years, the emotions that porn stars go through, and the inside...

Racial inequalities have plagued social culture and has shaped United State history since its creation. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines race as a “category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits”. In other words, race is not innate, it is a non-biological concept based...

Speaking of dolphins, most people’s first thought will be of the performing dolphins in various aquariums. They jump out of the water with a smile to make various performances. However, behind this beauty hides a lot of blood and cruelty. The documentary film The Cove...

Millions and millions of people that is living across the world is under the state of squalidness in terms of sickness, hunger and desperation. This pandemic poverty causes the most highly and deadly punishment in the world. However, this horror of poverty seemed to be...

This research is based on local Hong Kong television news broadcasts in Cantonese, the predominant Chinese dialect used in Hong Kong, Macau, South China and many overseas Chinese communities. Cantonese is monosyllabic with a rich tonal structure which are approximately 1,600 distinct tonal syllables with...

In the beginning of the documentary “The War You Don’t See” we are shown a clip from a shooting attack on innocent people by American soldiers. I am unsure what the motive behind this attack was. Did the American soldiers believe they were shooting at...