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The phrase "a plain documentary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a documentary that is straightforward, without embellishments or dramatizations.
Example: "The filmmaker aimed to create a plain documentary that presented the facts without any sensationalism."
Alternatives: "a straightforward documentary" or "an unembellished documentary".
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"Keeping It Real," which opens today at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater (155 East Third Street, East Village), is at its best when it's just a plain documentary that shows Mr. Walloch navigating around New York and records the highlights of actual stage performances.
Just as Nâzım Hikmet chose a plain, documentary style rather than the formality of traditional Turkish poetry in order to achieve a heightened sense of realism, Panahi's Taxi, with its artfully staged "reality," is a coy response to the new technological naïveté.
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