Since its inception, ethnographic documentary has been a rich and richly contested field of debates about representation, colonialism, cross-cultural collaboration, and public anthropology. In this course, we learn about the history of ethnographic documentary by watching key works that have shaped the genre, as well as by examining contemporary works and practices in ethnographic documentary and multi-media projects. We will explore the theories of knowledge production, expression, and aesthetics that motivate and emerge from these works, as well as the institutional structures through which they have been produced and circulated.