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This course explores the history and evolution of documentary filmmaking in Italy through the study of non-fictional works dealing with different social, political, and personal matters from the post-war period to the last decade. We shall screen the works of Vittorio De Seta, Ernesto De Martino, Alberto Grifi, Cecilia Mangini, Annabella Miscuglio, as well as the works of iconic directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Ermanno Olmi, considering their fiction and non-fiction films in dialectal relationship to one another. Moreover, this course devotes particular attention to late, contemporary female production (e.g. Alina Marazzi, Costanza Quatriglio, and Eleonora Danco) that, through the use of found footage and hybrid modes, blurs the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, the real and the surreal. Critical and theoretical readings include Marco Bertozzi’s Storia del documentario italiano, Bill Nichols’ Representing Reality, and others.