The phrase "a formal documentary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of film or video that presents factual information in a structured and serious manner.
Example: "The festival featured a formal documentary that explored the impact of climate change on coastal communities."
Alternatives: "an official documentary" or "a serious documentary".
The movie makes a case for her because she's a survivor; it's more of a mash note than a formal documentary, and there's nothing wrong with that (Mitchell).
The movie makes a case for her because she's a survivor; it's more of a mash note than a formal documentary, and there's nothing wrong with that.
She was one of the first in the televangelist crowd to accept gay men because she's a survivor; it's more of a mash note than a formal documentary, and there's nothing wrong with that (Mitchell).
Abandoning a more formal documentary format, the film is assembled from a series of vignettes showing women singing together in the camps, snippets of conversations, girls making up songs together, and late-night parties as the young stay awake and watch the skies for the glitter of the dreaded Antonovs.
Among the most strikingly original films on a modern artist (as arresting as Clouzot's Le Mystère Picasso, Jack Hazann's picture takes its title from David Hockney's most famous painting and is neither fly-on-the-wall cinema vérité nor formal documentary.
A sideways move into more formal documentaries was called for, but, as he tells it, he always had the itch to move into drama.
The documentaries prompted a formal apology on behalf of the state by Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and led to the government inquiry.
Though Masumura's subjects tend toward the exploitative, his analytical approach to them suggests a documentary view of the lusty underside of a formal culture.
Inspired by a documentary he'd seen about the hippie movement, Rubin held a formal funeral for Def.
A formal investigation is continuing.
