Sentence examples for documentaries in its from inspiring English sources

Why does Stanley Kubrick's The Shining merit documentaries in its own right, and Stephen King's The Shining end up forgotten among the made-for-TV mini-series?

The film was showing at Sheffield's Doc/Fest, which, even Webber would have to admit, has been a launchpad for some of the world's very best documentaries in its 21-year history.

And one well worth a documentary in its own right.

But even the most careful documentary, in its selectivity and tone, is a symbolic re-creation.

I love documentary in its ever-evolving shapes, and I think I'm not the only one.

Ashley Connor's cinematography melds with Decker's ecstatic conception to yield a film that's simultaneously quasi-documentary in its avidity for detail and nearly surrealistic in its transfigurative power.

The story has been told before, most notably in Paul Simon's "The Late Great Johnny Ace Alvinin's version, almost documentary in its devotion to detail, is not as overtly poetic — but for Alvin, often, the poetry is in the prose.

A trip that Boonmee and his friends take to a cave deep in the forest would make a captivating nature documentary in its own right, and the characters' serene acceptance of their amazing surroundings only deepens the sense of sublimity.

PBS has also presented good work: a documentary in its P.O.V. series, "Of Civil Wrongs and Rights," tells the story of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American who fought the internment order in 1942 and was arrested; his case went all the way to the Supreme Court and remained an open wound for decades, until his conviction was vacated in 1983.

Meanwhile, his wonderful novel Disguise – which begins when a three-year-old dies during bombing in wartime Germany and his distraught mother accepts another three-year-old in lieu – has a reach across cultures and decades that is almost documentary in its scope.

Here's the entire documentary in its full-length version.