100 Years of Documentary Film celebrates the centenary of the genre’s birth: in 1926, Robert J. Flaherty’s Moana was released, and it was in a review of the film that John Grierson first used the term “documentary.” The programme traces the genre’s hundred-year history, from its early experiments to contemporary works, exploring how the role, form, and relationship to reality of documentary film have evolved over the decades. Across 16 chapters, Mark Cousins tells this story with both personal insight and scholarly rigour.