Documentaries Web series are very informative and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary series makers have a respBollywood Documentary series or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries".Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length and to include more categories. Some examples are educational, observational, and docufiction. onsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic.