This paper discusses
documentaries as a form of expression which were introduced in the New Deal era and the Depression era.
These were times when the nation needed hope and needed to understand the tragedy and stress they were going through.
Documentaries were also a mode of transcribing history and revealing realistic the situation to gain a future understanding of the time. The documentary mode of expression was as much for the people as it was for the government. This paper studies this matter in-depth and concludes that the documentaries and history at the time were stated clearly from the
governmental point of view.