Sentence examples for documentary essentially from inspiring English sources

Ben Arnold 10pm, BBC4 How did British Muslim Moazzam Begg end up in Guantánamo Bay? Ashish Ghadiali's deceptively straightforward Storyville documentary, essentially a long interview with its subject, shows us events from Begg's perspective.

That documentary – essentially a film of former US Vice-President Al Gore's travelling Powerpoint presentation about global warming – "did a tremendous global public service in bringing this story out into the general awareness," says Balog across a table in a London hotel.

With its emphasis on Grant, the new documentary essentially serves as an extended airing for the outlandish idea that Love may have murdered Cobain, flanked by re-enactments of those taped phone calls and interviews.

The new documentary is essentially a Jimmy Carter book tour turned inside out, including a lot of face time with the likes of Larry King, Charlie Rose and Terry Gross.

The documentary is essentially about us as South Africans telling our own stories, and using the word Mzansi is an extension of this".

At a Y.M.C.A. in Bronzeville, on the South Side, as people crowded into the basement for a screening of "Inside Job" — the 2010 documentary that essentially detailed the depressing back story of their own foreclosure plight — J.R. told them that he had seen the film 19 times and hoped to see it 150 more.

Peter Moffat, the Bafta award-winning screenwriter of Silk, said: "In a television era when too many documentaries are essentially freak shows written, shot and edited to ask an audience to laugh at people with mental health issues, writers of television drama have a special responsibility to work against stereotyping and to create characters who are complex and engaging".

For all the cosmetics and the costumes, the scripts and the sets, that adorn movies with their air of artifice, cinematic performance is essentially documentary.

Rather, Truffaut's experience of the cinema-family was essentially documentary: he found it in the process of his work and then reflected it back into his films.

From 1998, when she first photographed the annual Twins Day festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, her work became both more formal and more ambitious, but she still saw it as essentially documentary.

My number one guiding principle in making documentary films is essentially the "Fight Club" Rule.