Abstract
This research examines relationship between documentary film and history and evaluates role of documentary film about recording history. In 1977, director Suha ARIN shot a documentary film, “Time in Safranbolu” in a historical place that is famous for its traditional houses and famous for its historical objects in Anatolia in Turkey. The director devoted his film for history of people and remind people their history, and their valuable accumulations via his film and recorded all historical heritage on his film. Many historical accumulation can be chained via documentary film against destruction of time. Thousands of documentary films have been shot about social life, traditions, wars and art works, about historical remains and documents, about buildings, monuments and ceremonies, about wild nature, animals and plants and about human since Robert Flaherty shot “The Nanook of the North” in 1922. Documentary film always documents accumulation of people who tried to constitute a civilization since the beginning and as a historical role, documentary film conveys great accumulation of humanity to next.
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