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Originally posted by Spelca:
]Here is the definition from the Academy themselves:
1. A documentary film is defined as a non-fiction motion picture dealing creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects. It may be photographed in actual occurrence, or may employ partial re-enactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on factual content and not on fiction.
From: http://www.oscars.org/74academyawards/rules/rule12.html
So according to their definition it is a documentary.  And since other critics and film professionals seem to think so too, I believe them. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Thanks Spelca - I think that answers the question. I applaud you for going to the oscars website for the information. Why didn't anyone else think of that?
BTW - in the documentary Moores (sp?) takes two of the Columbine survivors to K-Mart (where the ammunition has been purchased) to ask if they could return the bullets still in their bodies for a refund. The next day K-Mart announced that after a 90 day period they would cease to sell ammunition.