One of the acid attack victims featured in the documentary did not want to speak on the record as she still lives with the husband who carried out the crime.

BBC: Pakistan's Oscar triumph for acid attack film Saving Face

With a lot of patient craft, the co-directors of this frisky yet semi-tragic 1995 documentary, Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher, record the final months that Russel and Mary Jane Jordan spent on the Iowa farm that by 1990 had been in the family for almost a hundred and twenty-five years.

NEWYORKER: Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

If you're feeling this thing you've probably already got a really good reason why (shooting a feature-length documentary, perhaps?), but for the record, Canon's director of marketing sounded like they really did want to do 1080p, but they couldn't hack sourcing the CCD components necessary.

ENGADGET: Hands-on with the Canon EOS 5D and HDV High Definition XL H1

Written in these circumstances, the diary offers an immediacy that few documentary sources can in the day-to-day record and analysis of this cataclysm.

UNESCO: 2012 UK Memory of the World Register

King: A Filmed Record, Montgomery to Memphis (January 17), the landmark 1970 documentary directed by Sidney Lumet and Joseph Mankiewicz, combining vivid archival footage of Dr. King and the events of the civil rights movement with interviews and testimonials filmed after his death, shown in a 35mm archival print from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

ENGADGET: Museum of The Moving Image plans multi-million dollar updates with HD, 3D

For its part, the White House pronounced itself "baffled" that a man of Murtha's record would turn against the war, comparing his new views to those of controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.

NPR: Murtha's Moment: Not Soon Forgotten