The phrase "a type of documentary" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when categorizing or describing a specific genre or format of documentary films or works.
Example: "The film is a type of documentary that explores the impact of climate change on coastal communities."
Alternatives: "a genre of documentary" or "a form of documentary".
He and his third wife, American musician Peggy Seeger, pioneered a type of documentary, the "radio-ballad," combining recorded interviews with songs and narration.
MTV's "Real World,' the real-life soap opera about young people living together, constitutes a type of documentary and shows it "to be a very adaptable form," he said.
It began with the popularity of Mr. Burns's 1990 "Civil War". MTV's "Real World,' the real-life soap opera about young people living together, constitutes a type of documentary and shows it "to be a very adaptable form," he said.
At about the same time, the British director H. Bruce Woolfe reconstructed battles of World War I in a series of compilation films, a type of documentary that bases an interpretation of history on factual news material.
Chowdhury's work is a type of expanded documentary, an emergent form of contemporary art-making that's so new there isn't really a commonly agreed definition of it just yet.
What scraps of evidence there are (a few documents from the gap, a few sentences in lives of the abbots of Stoudion of that time, and the first dated manuscript written in true minuscule) point to its development from a certain type of documentary hand used in the 8th century and to the likelihood that the monastery of the Stoudion in Constantinople had a leading part in its early development.
When Junger and Hetherington interview one of them about this experience, he breaks off mid-speech – and of course we, the audience, expect tears: it is a familiar moment in all types of documentary.
As an example of this type of documentary, check out The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
The Netflix platform could thus allow for a more expansive, fluid type of documentary, he said.
As an example of this type of documentary, see Hot Coffee.
As an example of this type of documentary, check out one of Michael Moore's early documentaries, Roger & Me.
