Sentence examples for documentaries themselves from inspiring English sources

These projects have an afterlife online, where amateur detectives reinvestigate both the crimes and the documentaries themselves.

There's a file somewhere in Walsall Social Services saying: 'He was a bit difficult today; he was trying to find out about his parents.' Or: 'He locked himself in his room and is collecting beer mats.'" There is something slightly The Lives of Others about how his life has been officially recorded, and the documentaries themselves make compelling viewing.

And if Mr. Tippet and Ms. Mims weren't such accomplished visual stylists, you might even think that the teenagers shot the documentary themselves, which explains both its appeal and its limitations.

When it was decided to use a school as a backdrop to the story, which could also be used to provide a chronological narrative, O'Mahoney and Winter realised it would be too dangerous for the students to be seen with either a Western or Iraqi camera crew because it would draw too much attention to them, and so they decided that the students would film the documentary themselves.

History documentaries lend themselves rather better to selective editing – the subject thrives on finding new narratives for past events – and the second episode of Lucy Worsley's quasi-Govian stroll through the kings and queens of Britain, Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History (BBC2), was even more of a pleasure than the first.

Dramas, genre movies, comedies, romantic films and documentaries positioned themselves early for this year's annual Oscar race.

Paul and Michelle's family who are featured in the documentary found themselves having to find private rented accommodation when their local council found that they had made themselves 'intentionally homeless' after their housing benefit office had messed up their payments.

The effects of adoption on the psyche of adopted people are well-documented in numerous blogs, books and in many documentaries by adoptees themselves.

Carell researched du Pont extensively, reading reams of material about the Pennsylvania dynasty of industrial tycoons and watching the documentaries they commissioned about themselves.

Contemporary documentaries don't consider themselves bound by courtroom-style "discovery" rules about letting us know the complete story up front; they will withhold the big surprises.

Now that vérité-style comedies that try to present themselves as documentaries have been made totally passé, Sacha Baron Cohen has decided it's time for a transition to the less controversial turf of the biopic.