'documentary' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a non-fiction film or television program that provides a factual account of an event or an issue. For example, "I really enjoyed watching the documentary about the civil rights movement last night."
It's a documentary, ostensibly, but it's also a genre-defying film about memory and fiction and their strange, liquid relationship with the truth.
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As a teenager in California he had devoured Musto's Village Voice columns and been thunderstruck by seeing Arias sing Billie Holiday songs in 1988 cult documentary Mondo New York.
The Radio Times reported that the penultimate episode of the series, due to air on 22 March, had been replaced by a documentary about the Caribbean.
This was 1999, and I was a little smitten by the Buena Vista Social Club – an album of son music orchestrated by the Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos González and the American musician Ry Cooder, released a couple of years earlier, and that year made into an award-winning documentary by Wim Wenders.
After joining the UK youth parliament and creating a documentary based on her experiences, Temi founded Get Outta the Gang which aims to raise awareness, help rebuild family structures and give young people a long term focus beyond youth violence.
Apfel stars, along with Anna Wintour, as a New York grande dame in the documentary Bill Cunningham New York, having been a regular in Cunningham's photos for several decades, and is set to be the subject of her own documentary by Grey Gardens film-maker Albert Maysles.
Almost as if somebody knew that Channel 4 would be running a documentary series on the subject.
And, as seen on the BBC documentary Rock'n'Roll Hotel, the open-plan junior suites have been road-tested by Iron Maiden's drummer, Nicko McBrain.
Submarine call themselves "the world's premier destination for original transmedia dramas, documentaries and genre-defying entertainment", which sounds verbose and pretentious, but their latest interactive documentary – Who are the champions?
