Enjoy some filmic inspiration with these excellent archive-rich docs to watch online.
With our New Reveries: The Power of Archive Now filmmaking competition well under way, we’re thinking about some of the most striking, enjoyable and effective uses of archive material in documentaries.
In his ‘How to Make an Archive Doc’ workshop, Dr Shane O’Sullivan talks about different modes of archive documentary, which might be a completely ‘found footage’ film, or could use archive material more as a starting point and a way of setting an agenda for the film.
And the archive material itself? That could be footage in the public domain, from the news, from other films, or personal archive from home movies to family photos and other ephemera.
Celebrating some wonderful films that use varied sources of archive material in different creative ways, here’s our list of archive docs to watch online.