Television The Rise and Fall of the Documentary (Season 1, Episode 8)
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Television

The Rise and Fall of the Documentary (Season 1, Episode 8)

TV Episode | Documentary

An examination of how documentaries struggled, then flourished once filming techniques were perfected, but eventually declined thanks to docudramas and a yet-to-be-named new genre known as reality television.

Director

Michael Beckham

Producer

Michael Beckham

Composer

Alan Parker

Editors

Anthony Ham | Colin Heron | Alan Swain

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Updated Apr 2, 1985

Release date

Apr 2, 1985 (United Kingdom)

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17 cast members

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Ian Holm Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
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Richard Cawston Self Self See fewer	This Is the BBC (1959)
Denis Mitchell Self Self See fewer	In Prison (1957)
Fred W. Friendly Self Self See fewer	CBS Reports (1959)
Robert Drew Self Self See fewer	Storm Signal (1966)
Reuven Frank Self Self See fewer	The Tunnel (1962)
Alan Raymond Self Self See fewer	Children in War (2000)
Paul Fox Self Self See fewer	Panorama (I) (1953)
Ken Loach Self Self See fewer	I, Daniel Blake (2016)
George Gerbner Self Self See fewer	Independent Lens (1999)
Quentin Crisp Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Orlando (1992)
John F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Profiles in Courage (1964)
Robert F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Missiles of October (1974)
Richard Nixon Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Frost/Nixon (2008)
John Pilger Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The War You Don't See (2010)
George Wallace Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)