Sentence examples for conventional documentary from inspiring English sources

A conventional documentary might have assembled images from the 1940s.

How might a conventional documentary tackle this story?

Nor is it a conventional documentary portrait of the artist.

But sometimes a conventional documentary says more through how it treats its subjects.

"These are precisely the scenes that would be cut" in a conventional documentary.

Still, the film's writing is notably stylish for an otherwise conventional documentary.

Why did Mr. Folman, who has worked on more conventional documentaries in the past, decide to use animation in this one?

Richard Hutton, the executive producer, has accurately described this hybrid as " 'Masterpiece Theater' meets 'Nova.' " (The subsequent one-hour episodes, which will be shown over three nights, are more conventional documentaries).

Otherwise, there were plenty of more conventional documentaries in the selection, including Roberto Minervini's Special Mention winner Stop the Pounding Heart, which takes a surprisingly sympathetic look at a religious family in the Texas Bible belt.

But this was, after all, fast-paced reality TV, not conventional social documentary.

"Revolution," which Sebring financed through his fashion photography for such companies as M.A.C. and Coach, is a technical quantum leap from his previous film project, the excellent but conventional Patti Smith documentary "Dream of Life".