The phrase "a documentary made by a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a documentary film and specifying the creator or producer of that documentary.
Example: "I recently watched a documentary made by a renowned filmmaker that explored the effects of climate change."
Alternatives: "a documentary produced by a" or "a documentary created by a".
Bruce's ordeal is the subject of a documentary made by an old friend, "Unknown White Male," which opens this week.
Ghana's government has suspended seven high court judges implicated in allegations of bribery stemming from a documentary made by an investigative journalist.
"Enlighten Up!" a documentary made by Kate Churchill, a yoga devotee who followed a skeptic's journey through yoga, played in theaters last year.
The film, The Navidson Record, is a documentary made by Will Navidson, a photojournalist who has forsaken war zones in order to repair his marriage.
In "Good Times Will Never Be the Same," a documentary made by Jody Lee Lipes, a friend of Enright's, Enright and Deirup drive cross-country to Deirup's family home in Mendocino, Calif., where Enright plans to make art.
"We replaced it by 'Rachel,' " a documentary made by Simone Bitton, a Moroccan-born, French-Israeli director who emigrated to Israel with her family as a child, served in the Israeli Army, became a pacifist and mostly lives in France.
The ostensible subject of this smart, deceptively modest comedy is female beauty, which is also the apparent subject of a documentary made by one of its characters, a frustrated filmmaker named Kate, who is played by the screenwriter Lynne Adams.
Woody Allen: A Documentary, made by Curb Your Enthusiasm director Rob Weide, is a two-hour theatrical version of the doc that screened on American TV over two nights recently, tracing Woody's life from his childhood in Brooklyn through his early standup career and then through the films.
It's like a documentary made by Brecht – you're staging something to flush out a reaction in the audience, and that reaction is one of utter horror.
