Since the dawn of documentary production, films have shown the eternal search for the truth. Exposing reality as it is to the world through cinema has become a goal for documentary filmmakers. Over a period of time filmmakers lost their way along the way and became enablers who manipulated audiences around the world into believing what they wanted. During the 1960s two particular movements began to emerge in different parts of the world. Direct Cinema in North America and Cinema Vérité in Fance. These two movements revived the idea of ​​revealing the truth through their films. The new movements encourage filmmakers to take the position of observers. Cinema Diretto and Cinema Vérité are often confused and classified as a single movement. This is no surprise as their principle is to capture the authenticity of life as it is lived and break the veneer between the audience and the subject. But in reality Direct Cinema and Cinema Vérité are different and should not be classified as one since their professionals take different approaches in the film making process, Direct Cinema has an objective approach, while Cinema Vérité has a reflective approach. It is important to point out that Cinema The aesthetics and philosophy of Vérité and Direct Cinema films were not first thought of in the 1960s. The father of documentary Robert Flaherty prefigures the key elements of Cinema Vérité and Direct Cinema. For example, an interest in studying real people in their real environment. In Nanook of the North (1922) Flaherty follows Nanook and his family to the moths, to show the world the lifestyle and underlying culture of Nanook. Another example is that Flaherty saw the filmmaking process as an art of observation and subsequent selection. By the way......middle of the sheet......the Cinéma Vérité editing gives the impression that there is no space between the beginning, the end or the beginning of another shot, on the contrary of Direct Cinema which reveals shows us a sequence of events. The bottom line is that Direct Cinema and Cinéma Vérité are often confused due to the similarities between their roots and their purpose of revealing the truth through the lens. But, despite their similarities, they are two different movements. This is reflected in the different approach with which both achieve their goal. Direct Cinema takes an objective observation approach where directors try to influence the film as little as possible by just observing and not participating. While Cinéma Vérité takes a reflexive approach where filmmakers influence the film by participating in and provoking different situations and reactions to a topic.