This course will explore how film makers have since the Lumieres in 1895 made creative cinema out of the diverse worlds we live in. It will combine a history of International Documentary Cinema with issues of representation and the blurred distinctions between fiction and documentary. We will study experimental films like Joris Ivens 1929 Rain and other 20s City Films, the British Documentary Movement of the 1930s and 40s, Cinema Verite in the 1950s, the creative and political films of young Black film makers from the 80s Channel 4 Workshop Movement, the use of Archive and the influence of the 1981Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris which foregrounded the creative use of fiction film elements in Documentary. We will end the course by examining how contemporary Documentary film makers represent our diverse worlds.