Sentence examples for mainstream documentaries from inspiring English sources

Do you feel that popular mainstream documentaries like the Michael Moore films and Inconvenient Truth, as well as the success of 'amateur' projects like Loose Change have enlivened the field of documentary film making?

Unlike feature films, mainstream documentaries have long relied on government and foundation money, in part because the journalistic nature of the films has made corporate financing less likely and in part because the traditional outlet for many of the works was the Public Broadcasting Service's television network.

In dry, listless language, he recounts his own conversations and correspondence with Quek following the 1999 release of the mainstream documentary "Sex: The Annabel Chong Story".

The richly observed films are sprawling and intimate, dense with the raw material of human endeavor and discourse, and free from the ready-made storylines and messaging of mainstream documentary, much less voiceover.

Unlike mainstream documentary filmmakers, Mr. Morrison doesn't like to explain much — there are no guiding voices or additional text — even if it quickly becomes evident that he has a story to tell that stretches from the dawn of the 20th century to near its dark close.

But when she says that "I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them" she is reaffirming the faith in the mainstream documentary vocation as expressed and embodied by Walker Evans: "It's as though there's a wonderful secret in a certain place and I can capture it.

Mainstream documentary audiences tend to want investigations of known evils or a confirmation of decided heroes.

This was just after I took part in a mainstream documentary called My Transexual Summer.

But that night, as the partygoers celebrated a decidedly out-of-the-mainstream documentary about a Los Angeles beat poet, in the barroom where Orson Welles once held court, Mr. Wagner was a major topic of conversation.

A series about mental illness triumphed over mainstream populist documentaries to win a major award.

A Surrealist fellow-traveller, his movies on marine life – he was the Jacques Cousteau of his day – are at the same time mainstream and uncanny, documentaries that look like art or, just possibly, the other way about.