A guide to directing documentary projects written by an award-winning documentary filmmaker, professor, and author. This book is a concise learning experience on how to make documentary films with examples and reviews of various types of documentary projects. It has been re-edited and updated in 2022 and 2023. A learning experience and an exploration of directing documentary story projects providing fundamental and advanced ideas about documentary filmmaking and nonfiction storytelling using film, video, multimedia, and other mediums. There are numerous critical reviews of documentary films and the stories they tell from a directing and filmmaking perspective. Understanding the storytelling structure of specific documentary directing styles helps in learning and building a personal directing approach. The best directors understand the traditions and aesthetics of the medium in which they work. They also understand the crafts involved and may have worked at some of those jobs themselves.