The phrase "astonishing documentary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a documentary that is surprising or impressive in its content or presentation.
Example: "The astonishing documentary on climate change opened my eyes to the urgent issues facing our planet."
Alternatives: "incredible documentary" or "remarkable documentary".
Nostalgia for the Light History, elegy, essay, indictment, Patricio Guzmán's astonishing documentary encompasses all of them.
One could go straight to Nietzsche, "The Gay Science," section 361; or, nearer to hand, take a look at the Maysles brothers' astonishing documentary "Meet Marlon Brando".
That image is summoned by Yung Chang, the Chinese-Canadian director and occasional narrator of "Up the Yangtze," an astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history amid China's economic miracle.
The inspiration, focus and, yes, hero of Jacquet's astonishing documentary (the birds presumably having received ample fame in Jacquet's 2005 film, March of the Penguins), Lorius is an intriguing blend of explorer, scientist and survivor.
O. Scott) ★ 'BLINDSIGHT' (PG, 1 44, in Tibetan) Filmed primarily in and around the cascading Tibetan Himalayas, Lucy Walker's astonishing documentary follows six blind Tibetan teenagers as they attempt to scale the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri peak on the north side of Mount Everest.
The same equation can also result in revelation, as ESPN's astonishing documentary series "O.J.: Made in America" proves.
Renoir matches the elegance of calm lawmen with their terse courage, Maigret's perspicacity with an astonishing, documentary-style long take of a car chase through back roads in near-total darkness.
By virtue of its title alone, "Tabloid," Errol Morris's astonishing new documentary, achieves a degree of serendipitous timeliness.
This astonishing British documentary should help put the oddball French confidence trickster Frédéric Bourdin up there as a candidate for inclusion in the Imposters Hall of Famee.
When we first meet Jacques Vergès — even before the opening titles of "Terror's Advocate," Barbet Schroeder's astonishing new documentary — he is playing down the genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s.
The text that appears on-screen at the start of "The Act of Killing," an astonishing new documentary that opens this Friday, alludes to "the direct aid of western governments," but the film, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, quickly arrives at its chief subject: the men who carried out the mass killings, and their discordantly cheerful recollections of that slaughter.
