The phrase "as a documentary of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that serves as a record or representation of events, experiences, or subjects in a documentary format.
Example: "The film was created as a documentary of the struggles faced by the community during the crisis."
Alternatives: "in the form of a documentary" or "as a record of".
Our critic described it as a "documentary of two halves," in which Assange is built up and torn down.
He made several documentary films featuring Young ("Heart of Gold," "Neil Young Trunk Show," "Neil Young Journeys"), as well as a documentary of the British singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock ("Storefront Hitchcock," 1998).
But the fact remains that many of Furtwangler's greatest recordings were either on Electrola or with the Vienna Philharmonic, so that as a documentary of his achievements, or even of his achievements with this orchestra, the set falls short.
On a comic, or maybe tragicomic, level the issue of deception and critical reception was also raised recently by "I'm Still Here," the movie held out by its director, Casey Affleck, as a documentary of the unsightly celebrity disintegration of the actor Joaquin Phoenix, who is seen snorting drugs, abusing underlings and doing other things most people suspect all celebrities do.
Discovery Channel's Shark Week, a staple of American cable television since 1987, began on Sunday with an airing of a documentary called Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives, billed as a documentary of the search for a notorious killer great white shark off the South African coast.
Here they have put him through a series of spectacular aerial fights (which are just so much obvious acrobatics) and have made him a statuesque hero.The nature of the picture is fictional, and whatever significance it might have had as a documentary of A. V. G. action has been carelessly kicked away.
Anderson, who took inspiration from the François Truffaut film "Small Change," has described his directing style as "filming a documentary of these kids acting".
The Russian edition was particularly successful and became a standard school textbook, possibly as a documentary account of life in the heart of the capitalist empire.
The Oxford modern history school had been designed in the late 19th century by William Stubbs, as a documentary study of British constitutional development.
Not that Prose proposes reading the memoir, with its fudges and wild boasts, as a documentary account of her subject's life.
Yet, for all that, it is an interesting record else we should not have taken so long to dismiss it as incredible in its way as a documentary film of life among the pygmies or a trip to the Middle Ages.
