Video and photo documentary evidence abound on social networks.

FORBES: Cup o' Justice: Coffee Chain Blenz Sues Vancouver Rioters

It is perhaps the most devastating portrait of social inequality ever presented in a contemporary American documentary.

NEWYORKER: The Central Park Five

Put differently, how can documentary filmmakers working on long-standing social and political issues ensure that their work is well poised to move the needle on their chosen topic in a significant way?

FORBES: Shifting Narratives Through Documentary Film: A Case Study of 'Budrus'

Ethnohistorical research combines early documentary sources as well as archaeology, linguistics, and social theory with biogeographical evidence of the earliest cultures.

UNESCO: Dialogue

It is a cross between a love poem to Ms Lalonde and a city-symphony documentary, stitched in with a light-hearted parody of the social-enquiry film (subjects are shown eating their breakfast egg in all manner of ways).

ECONOMIST: Richard Leacock

It is just as important to infuse this ideal and goal into narrative film, animation, digital media, television and theater classes (whether mainstream or independent) as much as for documentary classes, an area often thought of as the primary domain for social impact filmmaking.

FORBES: Connect

Some of the solutions are disseminated through a recently launched six-part, documentary-style DVD series on human flourishing, and an active presence in social media (approaching 1 million likes on Facebook).

FORBES: From Aid To Enterprise: How To Intelligently Cure Poverty

At that time, much of the world's documentary heritage was in a poor state of preservation, which was worsened by war and social upheaval, lack of resources, and ignorance of the importance of this heritage.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES