pt. 1.Background to documentary:The role of the critic --The logic of comedy --Directors of the "thirties" --The cinema of ideas --Hollywood looks at life --pt. 2.A movement is founded:First principles of documentary --Creative use of sound --The E.M.B. Film Unit --Summary and survey: 1935 --pt. 3.Documentary achievement:Films and the community --The course of realism --A Scottish experiment --Battle for authenticity --pt. 4.Development in Canada:The film at war --Searchlight on democracy --The nature of propaganda --The documentary idea: 1942 --pt. 5.Education: a new concept:Education and the new order --Education and total effort --Propaganda and education --The library in an international world --pt. 6.Future for documentary:Films and the I.L.O.--The challenge of peace --Report from America.