Mr. Morris and his supporters argue that a re-enactment used to misrepresent fact is one thing; creative cinema is another.
While it is ultimately more admirable than exciting, "Trumpery" rarely feels like a simple lecture, or one of those stilted dramatic re-enactments used to enliven television documentaries of the pre-Ken Burns era.
The centerpiece is a group of photographs of historical re-enactments using local people dressed in period costumes.
The problem is that sometimes a re-enactment using actors reaches a very fine line between what is real and what is not.
According to Jackie Pucci, the mouthy meter maid on "All Worked Up," many of her segments on the show are re-enactments, using actual people she's ticketed in Venice, Calif.
But instead of putting together the usual archival or talking-head documentary, they and Mr. Oppenheimer collaborated on a series of elaborate re-enactments, using makeup, costumes and special effects to evoke the terror and (for Anwar and Herman, the glory) of the past.
However, it does so through re-enactment, using ex criminals with gun convictions – such as Laycock – to act out the crimes where the gun was used.
In the south, re-enactments are used primarily to commemorate the battles of the civil war.
People who wear that kind of clothing all the time for fairs or re-enactments are used to being looked at funny in the 7-Eleven, but it might be pretty humiliating if you aren't.
Honey Springs Battlefield, administered by the Oklahoma Historical Society, is a beautiful, sprawling place, with well-marked trails, an information center and monthly reenactments of Civil War life; every three years there is a re-enactment there using black troops.
The Canadian authorities would not allow the modern-day re-enactment to use a live incendiary, so explosives inside the dam instead were detonated once the pilots had carried out a successful direct hit.
