Sentence examples for dry documentary from inspiring English sources

Shots of the vintage ships at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut help bring the story to life and keep this from becoming just another dry documentary.

Although the crisis was cogently covered in news reports, The Last Days of Lehman Brothers draws viewers into the drama in a way that a dry documentary featuring balance sheets and banking experts never can.

The dry documentary approach here carries a peculiar emotional burden.

Try some painfully dry documentary about global politics.

In his memoir, "Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten," Ketchum explains, "It was my purpose to create a contemplative, suspenseful mood in order to heighten interest, hoping to distinguish this movie from the usual dry Army documentary".

What makes "Triggers" the antithesis of the dry historical documentaries that clog the air is that he is then asked to prove it.

Comedy Central teamed up with comedy troupe the State for the Cops spoof Reno 911; Canadian TV was airing the mockumentary-turned-series Trailer Park Boys; over in the United Kingdom, the BBC began broadcasting Ricky Gervais's The Office, a bone-dry mock documentary about an everyday workplace that became the first British comedy to ever win a Golden Globe Award.

Our colloquium will start off with a film screening of Dry Roast, a documentary film made by UC Berkeley Journalism graduates Emily Thomas and Lauren Schwartzman.

These transgenerational voices add warmth and color to what might have been a dry, making-of documentary, and encourage hopes for a Blu-ray release of the two underrated features that resulted from the tour: "Saludos Amigos" (1942) and the irresistible "Three Caballeros" (1944), a sort of chicka-boom-boom "Fantasia" featuring music by, among others, Ary Barroso, Manuel Esperón and Agustín Lara.

Harper's academic reserve results in rather a dry tone but her documentary sources, which are in ample supply, are engrossing.

"All About the Spotting Deer" starts out as a dry parody of nature documentaries ("Its 'antlers' are actually colonies of parasitic polyps that are first attached to the deer during adolescence"); then it mutates into a vignette about an unhappy author, then into a routine about Canadian self-­celebration, and ultimately folds in on itself.