This unique feature documentary investigates the history and contemporary legacy of the revolution in nonfiction filmmaking known as cinéma vérité. Covering the period between 1958 and 1968, when documentary film was throwing off its heavy technical ballast and discovering its subjective freedom, Wintonick’s film follows the geographic development of the genre, from the Cinéma Direct movement in Quebec and Cinéma Vérité in France to Candid Eye in Canada and Free Cinema in the United Kingdom. Through interviews with the prime practitioners of this movement (Perrault, Brault, Leacock, Pennebaker, Wiseman, Koenig, et al.) and their heirs (Barbara Kopple, Roman Kroiter, Gillian Caldwell), as well as numerous extracts from their films, Cinéma Vérité questions this revolutionary movement and examines the impact it continues to exert today.