'documentary book' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a book that is based on actual facts or events and contains factual information about a subject, such as a historical event. For example: "I'm reading a great documentary book about the Vietnam War".
The Bauhaus by Hans Wingler, scholarly written and profusely illustrated, is the most reliable documentary book on the history and activities of the Bauhaus.
Caldwell provided the text and his wife-to-be, Margaret Bourke-White, provided the photographs for a powerful documentary book about the rural South entitled You Have Seen Their Faces (1937).
After leaving Conde Nast in 1977 she designed exhibitions, catalogs and a documentary book for the Guild Hall in East Hampton, which also mounted an exhibition of her editorial layouts.
Though the topic of an oral history narrated by a black person might not be directly about race, the end product created from that oral history, be it a podcast, documentary, book, etc. could, again, be seen as less of an opinion and more of a factual representation of the typical African-American perspective.
This portrait is a slight variation on the iconic photograph of Allie Mae Burroughs, the wife of a tenant farmer featured under the pseudonym Annie Mae Gudger in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the 1941 documentary book in which Evans collaborated with the writer James Agee (Figure 3).
He produced more than 150 AIDS-related programs for public-access cable television and was the subject of a documentary, "Books of James".
There have been two documentary books released chronicling the making of the Friday the 13th films.
She'll revisit her past work, which is still being analyzed in documentaries, books and dissertations.
Over the past six months, we've been treated to debates, articles, documentaries, books – and now a play at the National Theatre.
Magazine articles, documentaries, books – they all require the same level of experiencing honesty about events".
Over the next decade or so the name of that ship kept cropping up – in TV documentaries, books, newspaper articles.
