The phrase "a faux documentary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a film or television program that mimics the style of a documentary but is fictional or staged.
Example: "The film was presented as a faux documentary, blending real interviews with scripted scenes to create a unique narrative."
Alternatives: "mockumentary" or "pseudo-documentary".
One idea is a faux documentary that follows Team Rocket on their quest of crime.
"The Thick of It" was not a faux documentary, but Iannucci was at ease with jump cuts, imperfect lighting, half-heard insults.
"Journey to the Moon" (2009), for example, presents a faux documentary about a trip to the moon by inhabitants of a remote Turkish village in 1957.
"REDACTED", a film directed by Brian De Palma, is a faux documentary inspired by the story of an atrocity committed last year in a town south of Baghdad.
His opus was anticipated by James McBride's mocking, self-examining experimental 1968 epic film "David Holtzman's Diary," a faux documentary about a young man's everyday life.
According to the online magazine movieline.com, after one Sundance screening a man in the audience told the filmmakers that, while they had done a great job, he thought it was actually a "faux documentary".
Together they filmed the migration of the Bakhtari people in Grass (1925) and made Chang (1927), a faux-documentary on jungle life.
But he moved on, the following year creating My Generation, also for ABC, a faux-documentary in the style of Seven Up, following a group of teenagers and revisiting them 10 years after graduation.
Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, the film is a faux-documentary that follows the attempts of a 1970s promoter to conjure conjoined twins into a rock'n'roll sensation.
Terrell Falk, a spokesperson for Cinemark, told the Guardian: "The assassination of a sitting president is problematic subject matter". Gabriel Range's film, originally commissioned for television by Channel 4 and screened on More4 last night, uses a faux-documentary style to depict the assassination of George W Bush in October 2007.
Yet, strangely, "The Devil Inside" is not that bad — it offers a few memorable moments of religious madness arising from unwise exorcisms, and it sticks with an admirable thoroughness to its premise: a faux-documentary about a young woman's effort to free her murderous mother from demonic possession.
