Sentence examples for While documentaries from inspiring English sources

While documentaries easily shift perspective, moving from one witness to the next, the scope of the movement has, so far, thwarted most fictional storytellers.

One reason is that television movies are notoriously hard to advertise, while documentaries, especially those on PBS, can be marketed as teaching tools, as this one is.

Already, the Apollo missions have proved fertile territory for filmmakers; Damien Chazelle's Armstrong biopic, First Man, offered a deeply studied take on the astronaut and his time in space, while documentaries such as Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo combined archives with present-day interviews.

At the Quai Branly, 100 scholars and writers read from or lectured on the work of Mr. Lévi-Strauss, while documentaries about him were screened, and guided visits were provided to the collections, which include some of his own favorite artifacts.

That's the terrain that filmmaking is often best at, offering visceral narratives for viewers to imagine alternative ways of being and relating; while documentaries can be great, people often don't respond well to apocalyptic facts and figures being shouted at them.

While documentary footage forms part of the show when the live exploits are over, in recent years Bock has increasingly focussed on making films in their own right.

This fall, playwright Aaron Landsman and writer Hanna Pylväinen will begin their second fellowship year while documentary filmmaker Pacho Velez and choreographer/director Pavel Zuštiak arrive on campus to begin their fellowships.

Best in Show creator Christopher Guest returns to the "mockumentary" genre with A Mighty Wind, while documentary legend Errol Morris is on hand with his acclaimed The Fog of War, a profile of the Vietnam-era defence secretary Robert McNamara.

Elsewhere, Matthew McConaughey won best supporting actor for his performances in Magic Mike and Bernie, while documentary The Gatekeepers, about Israel's secretive internal security service, won the non-fiction prize.

Best television soundtrack award went to BBC drama Ripper Street, while documentary The Epic of Everest beat the Oscar-award winning space drama Gravity to pick up best original film score.

While "documentary filmmaker and social activist" might be unexpected moonlighting gigs for a plastic surgeon and a lawyer, the Wider brothers grew up on Long Island with parents who "sparked a strong interest in us to do something that married creativity with an important social-justice cause," Jedd says.