This document discusses different types and features of documentaries. It outlines several types of documentaries including fully narrated, fly on the wall, cinema verité, mixed, self-reflective, drama/docudrama, and docusoap. It also describes common features such as observation, interviews, dramatization, mise-en-scène, exposition, and different narrative structures including open/closed and linear/non-linear. The purpose of a documentary is to document and report factual events using actual footage or reconstructions.