Definition of "documentarian"
documentarian
noun
plural documentarians
A person whose profession is to create documentary films.
Quotations
As film tourism becomes a rising field of interest, this portion of documentary history is in danger of repetition unless documentarians utilize the nobler ideas of documentary in order to cultivate a deeper understanding between people, filmmaker, and audience.
2015, Merritt Mecham, The Documentarian as tourist: travel and representation in documentary, Brigham Young University
A person who cares about communication and documentation.
Quotations
Expanding the meaning of documentarian to include folks of any job title is important. Historically, people writing documentation might be called either a tech writer or a programmer, but there wasn’t a name for someone who cares about communication and documentation. We hope to change this.
2013, Troy Howard, Eric Redmond, Eric Holscher Documentarians, Write the Docs
I recently co-organised the Build your Docs career conference together with the Write the Docs (WTD) community. This was the fourth collaboration between the organisations and focused on the technical writing profession ... The talks provided lots of practical advice on how we can, as documentarians, learn in such a way as to maximise our potential for development in the future.
2018, Jonathan Glassman, Build your Docs career event: our recap, UK Government Digital Service
(sometimes attributive, theology) Somebody who advocates the documentary hypothesis.