Le shmup documentaire Francais!
I don’t remember how or when I found this, but since our network was down this morning I was poking around old videos I’d previously downloaded, and discovered this awesome French documentary on shmups.
It’s very exhaustive and impressive, and covers everything from Space Invaders to modern danmaku shmups and doujin shmups.
If you lack mad French skillz, you can get the English subtitle file here, and use it by watching the movie in VLC.
Japanese and Italian subtitles are also available on the translator’s webpage.