Which category of film would describe Fahrenheit 9/11 and the Gracie Award winning Troop 1500?
Troop 1500 Troop 1500 is a documentary film which won two Gracie Awards from the American Women in Radio & Television (AWRT) in the Individual Achievement Award for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Documentary. The nationally broadcast film (PBS) follows a unique Girl Scouts of the USA troop which unites mothers and daughters monthly behind the bars at the Hilltop Unit, a prison of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, in Gatesville, Texas. All of the mothers have been convicted of serious crimes and are serving long sentences.
Prisoner of Paradise Prisoner of Paradise is a 2002 documentary film directed by Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender, and produced as a British-Canadian-American collaboration. The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II. There he was ordered to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film. In addition to gaining positive reviews, the film was nominated for "Best Feature Documentary" in the 2003 Academy Awards. Clarke won the Directors Guild of Canada Award; he and Sender were together nominated for the 2003 Directors Guild of America Award.