The work entitled The Poetic Documentary: From Joris Ivens to Nonny de la Peña documented the course of the poetic documentary from the first public film screening, made on 28 December 1895, going through the fight against the predominance of the consumer zone fueled by the desire for maturation, the actual maturation of the genre, and the future trends to which this kind of documentary film is moving with the emergence of new technologies, like virtual reality or the concept of cloud filmmaking. The research aims at the diegetic world of the poetic documentary film, both historically and critically, to shed light on current theoretical knowledge and some insights for fertile research, for the future, to test the applicability of aesthetic elements (as a universal aspect) in the construction of the poetic mode.