We make a classic documentary using the archival record.

The website also includes an archive of classic documentaries, interviews with documentary film makers and short educational guides to documentary-making.

Usually made for promotional purposes, it is closer to an advertisement than a classic documentary.

Hackers is a classic documentary about the midnight programmers that created the personal computer revolution.

He was interviewed by the BBC for their classic multi-part documentary of the conflict, The Great War, in 1954.

His movies, pacifist and radical, strongly review the limit of classic documentary and movies.

But they decided to take the show beyond classic documentary, in which cameras record events rather than construct them.

"Three-quarters of this show is classic documentary, and we don't break that barrier," Mr. Mettler said.

The film begins like a classic documentary, but soon develops, transcending its subject and transforming into a cinematographic meditation on youth, war, idealism and political utopia.

(Robert Flaherty directed the classic documentary "Nanook of the North.")