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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a documentary based on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a documentary film or program that is derived from a specific source, such as a book, event, or real-life story.
Example: "The documentary based on the life of the famous scientist received critical acclaim for its in-depth research and storytelling."
Alternatives: "a documentary inspired by" or "a documentary derived from".
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Mr. Blackmon, in a phone interview, said he had not heard about any other instance of his book's being banned, though makers of a documentary based on it were prevented from filming in one Alabama town by the mayor and city attorney.
A PR image for a documentary based on Clinton Cash.
A documentary based on the book aired on PBS in 2012.
Back to more familiar BBC ground: a documentary based on an anniversary.
Lane and the filmmaker Emile De Antonio combined on a documentary based on the book.
In 2010, she presented a documentary, based on a book she published two years before, on Pompeii.
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The second was the public television premiere of "The Emperor of All Maladies," a new documentary based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name that is a "biography of cancer", tracing the path of our history with the disease while profiling the scientists, researchers, doctors, and patients who have dedicated their lives to beating it.
Flores cites Rony's labeling of Méliès' productions as a "hybrid documentary and fantasy" and notes that it was an early attempt at a historical documentary based on its attempt at a faithful setting.
The most striking instance of this occured in late 1996, at a meeting Cusack, Hersh, and Reznikoff had with producers who were making a TV documentary based on Hersh's book.
I mean, it's hardly as if Boris ever presented a TV documentary based on his own book about the Roman Empire.
With a new documentary based on his book, Freedom Riders, which will be broadcast May 16 on PBS, the activists have taken center stage.
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