This course provides an introduction to non-fiction film. We study a selection of documentaries--the list includes classics that have historical significance but also more recent examples about highly contemporary issues--and we try to understand what documentaries are and what they "do." The aim of the course is to teach students to develop an understanding of how non-fiction films function both as aesthetic works of art that have stories to tell and use certain rhetorical approaches to tell them and as documents of reality that ultimately seek to intervene in the very reality they depict. CAS Divisional Assignment: HU; KHC Assignment: HU