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No one expects or wants documentary accuracy.
Illustrations documenting rock formations (all scored black lines and knife-sharp silhouettes) were once the pinnacle of documentary accuracy.
"Sophie Scholl" is not a great film, but then, in its sober reliance on documentary accuracy, it faces overwhelming competition.
Canaletto never worried too much about documentary accuracy, hence some of the same people are wandering about in the foreground of the two paintings.
But there are countless examples of manipulation of facts, particularly in the chronology of the novels, which show that for Zola documentary accuracy was not paramount.
In retrospect the revelations and reversals may look a bit too neat — too obviously written, André might say, with a sneer — but as a group portrait of apprentice intellectuals the film has an almost documentary accuracy.
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In the last month, the Liberty Film Festival screened a host of right-wing movies in Hollywood, and "Celsius 41.11," a conservative documentary challenging the accuracy of "Fahrenheit 9/11," opened in Washington.
As a lifelong fan of the BBC, I was shocked by what appeared to be a lack of objectivity and even accuracy in this documentary.
This impression is not without a fair bit of exaggeration and the endless depictions in documentaries looking for spectacle more than accuracy.
The Discovery Channel was criticized for its "quasi-documentaries" about the subject that "sacrifice[d] accuracy for entertainment".
Factual accuracy is as important to the documentary as to the written work of history.
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