The part of the sentence "compile a documentary" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when describing a task or action that needs to be done. For example, "I have been assigned to compile a documentary on the history of the city".
Later that night, the pair recovered the footage and ran three miles to the border and on to Vienna, where they sold it to a Munich-based producer who was compiling a documentary called Hungary Aflame.
In cutting back and forth between then and now, Mr. Moss is more interested in contrasting the moods and textures of life at different ages and eras than at compiling a documentary history.
For example, in the 1970s a Japanese photographer, Keiki Haginoya, undertook what was to be a lifelong project to compile a photo documentary of children's play on the streets of Tokyo.
These data were then compiled into a documentary record and rendered anonymous to protect confidentiality.
Ian Hislop compiled a telling documentary on the subject, inspecting Anglo-French relations during the Napoleonic era and the impact of emotion on the British public.
And to some extent the fear was warranted: "Life in a Day", a documentary compiled from footage sent to YouTube, celebrates a shared humanity very like that which such ads seek to engender.
"I was well aware that my passion for the book was not sufficient to justify launching into an adaptation straight away," Mr. Salles, who is compiling the footage into a documentary, said by e-mail.
Sellars has lately adopted a documentary style of libretto writing, compiling texts from memoirs, letters, and historical accounts.
Curtis first pitched the idea of a documentary on conservative ideology in 2003 and spent six months compiling the films.
