Resumen: Documentaries have always intended to chronicle history. We are used to the historical narratives provided by TV documentaries, focusing mainly on public history. But in the last decades, we also find other types of documentaries, dealing with histories close to the proposals of microhistory and the history of everyday life; a type of films that I propose to call microhistorical documentaries. These films focus on the narratives of ordinary people, following the well-known proposal of microhistory to change the scale of observation by providing a different account of history. As a result they often rely on domestic archives to build their narratives. I intend in this chapter to analyze domestic audiovisual archives ¿that is, snapshots and home movies¿ in the specific context of their use as archival source to create microhistorical documentaries.
