First Contact (1983 film)
"First Contact" is the first documentary in what later became known as "The Highland Trilogy". The other two films are "Joe Leahy's Neighbours" (1989) and "Black Harvest" (1992). These three films, between them, have won some thirty major awards, included each film winning both the Grand Prix at the Festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris and AFI Award for Best Documentary.
List of documentary films
This is an alphabetical list of documentary films with Wikipedia articles. The earliest documentary listed is "Fred Ott's Sneeze" (1894), which is also the first motion picture ever copyrighted in North America. The term "documentary" was first used in 1926 by filmmaker John Grierson as a term to describe films that document reality. For other lists, see and .