books.google.ca - More than any other person, Jack C. Ellis notes, John Grierson, a Scot, was responsible for the documentary film as it has developed in English-speaking countries. While in the United States in the 1920s, Grierson first applied the termdocumentaryto Robert Flaherty'sMoana. In 1927, Grierson returned...http://books.google.ca/books/about/John_Grierson.html?id=PqtdMdpKlNEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareJohn Grierson