Using Documentary Footage to Build Historical Questions and Inquiry explores how documentary footage can move beyond passive viewing to support deeper historical inquiry. Readers will examine how documentaries can help students generate historical questions, investigate interpretation, compare perspectives, and recognize uncertainty in interpreting the past. The article highlights practical strategies for transforming documentary analysis into an active process of questioning, evidence evaluation, and inquiry-based learning. Through comparison, perspective analysis, and investigation of unresolved questions, teachers can use documentary footage to help students engage more deeply with how historical understanding is constructed and revised.