The phrase "documentary examination" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to reviewing or analyzing documents, often in legal or academic settings.
Example: "The documentary examination revealed several inconsistencies in the evidence presented."
Alternatives: "document review" or "document analysis."
But the production has far too much of a political agenda simply to provide a documentary examination of the lives of reporters.
"Racing Dreams," Marshall Curry's absorbing documentary examination of the world of professional auto racing, comes at its subject craftily: from below.
Two years ago, when he staged Andrea Dunbar's drama about life on a Bradford council estate, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, he twinned it with a documentary examination of the estate as it is now.
Gibney was the director of the ultimate documentary examination of the Enron scam: "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room".
Mr. Van Sant's "Elephant" is a documentary-like examination of an ordinary day in a mostly white, middle-class high school in which the calm is splashed with a corrosive burst of violence: two boys arm themselves and begin shooting.
Since "Titicut Follies" Mr. Wiseman has made 32 documentaries, mainly examinations of American life: the poor ("Welfare") and the rich ("Aspen"), dancers ("Ballet") and the disabled ("Blind" and "Deaf"), eating ("Meat") and shopping ("The Store").
The documentary is an examination of paintings, thought to be 26,000 to 32,000 years old, in the Chauvet Cave in southern France.
This isn't a news documentary but a sympathetic examination of the personalities involved in trying to change the Boy Scouts' rules.
However, Gibson completed an interim report based on an examination of documentary evidence, and a version is to be published next week, almost 18 months after it was sent to the prime minister.
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE Alex Gibney's excellent and agonizing documentary is a comprehensive examination of the Bush Administration's position on the use of torture in the wake of 9/11.
A decade ago the French filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade spent a reported 650 hours filming his eight-part documentary "The Staircase," an examination of a sensational murder trial in Durham, N.C.
