Sentence examples for When documentaries from inspiring English sources

At a time when documentaries often come adorned with all manner of stylistic frills, there's a traditional, even old-fashioned, feel to Steve James's The Interrupters – a meticulous, interview-heavy account of life and death in inner-city Chicago.

Indeed the drama community needs to be more aware of pricing itself out of the market when documentaries can offer good ratings and satisfying narratives at a lower cost.

At a time when documentaries on these genres are thriving – prominent films on Elizabeth Holmes, the Fyre festival, Adnan Syed and Lorena Bobbitt have all premiered this year – The Act filters Dean's deep reporting on the Blanchard story through an episodic tale of manipulation, revenge and toxic love.

Standing on deck at the end of the hour, Mr. Brokaw calls the ship's crew members "veterans" of "America's first war of the 21st century," a fitting wrap-up to a program that carries an uneasy echo of wartime propaganda and raises the question of when documentaries become part of the government's public relations machine.

All I can say is that when documentary-making is at its best, it holds a mirror up.

The show boosted Five's audience in the 8pm slot by 300,000 viewers compared with last Tuesday, when documentary Spider Attack was watched by 1.3 million.

It marked -- if it did not initiate -- the moment when documentary filmmakers started giving their full attention to Hitler's planned extermination of the Jews.

At QUAD (until 7 Jun), Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel's 1970s series, itself titled Evidence, marks the moment when documentary images, presented out of context, started to accrue an unreal aura.

At a time when documentary skews toward advocacy and polemic, it is bracing to encounter such a vibrant commitment to color, noise and improvisation, to the communication not of points of view but rather of visions.

At a time when documentary TV is being squeezed in regular TV schedules, the Global BBC iPlayer could throw a lifeline to documentary makers in terms of visibility, global reach and, crucially, the potential of a new income stream.

When documentary-maker Carl Ross was granted behind-the-scenes access to film That's Football, a season in the life of second tier side Swindon Town throughout the 1992-93 season, he hit paydirt.