I don't know what truth is.
Truth is something unattainable.
We can't think we're creating truth with a camera. But what we can do, is reveal something to viewers that allows them to discover their own truth. The film takes an approach that's at once light-hearted and incisive, interviewing a dizzying array of creators of documentary and fleshing out the history with a rich selection of clips that cover a wide geographic and stylistic range. This revolution required new technologies that would make the camera mobile and permit synch sound, strategies that would bring a new sense of realism to subjects that could now be caught in flagrante, so to speak. Brault was responsible for the 1958 documentary classic Les Racquetteurs , among others.