Sentence examples for odd documentaries from inspiring English sources

Quite half the cultural stimuli I recall being on the end of as a teenager came from TV – from A J P Taylor lecturing without notes on BBC2, to John Betjeman reciting his poems in transit through Metroland, and odd documentaries about artists and writers that sent you to galleries or libraries in search of their work.

This is an odd documentary, more a study of its charismatic (and clearly divisive) subject than an Age of Stupid call to arms.

A weird mood of solemnity settles like rain on this interesting, odd documentary about the petrol-head Hollywood star Steve McQueen and the film he took on in 1970 at the height of his celebrity prestige.

This odd documentary — which deals with the death of a young physician named Andrew Bagby, who was a childhood friend of the film's director, Kurt Kuenne — made a small splash when it was first released, in 2008, but it's worth revisiting now, in the midst of the recent bonanza of true-crime hits.

How you feel about the odd little documentary "Barefoot to Timbuktu" will depend to an unusually large extent on how you feel about its subject, a Swiss-American artist named Ernst Aebi, who made a killing in SoHo and TriBeCa real estate and has spent much of the time since as a globe-trotting "adventurer".

The result, an odd, transfixing TV documentary, "Living with Michael Jackson," which aired in 2003, ranks with the Sex Pistols' decision to make the focus of its first U.S. tour a swing through the Deep South as the most unhelpful marketing decision in the history of popular music.

Now Mr. Wilcha has put that experience to good use: on Tuesday night PBS will broadcast his "Second-Hand Stories," an odd and hilarious documentary in which he and another intrepid fellow, John Freyer, make a cross-country journey buying and selling people's castoffs.

The effect of these bleak, strip-lit testimonies set against the shaded, shifting, shifty voices of the village is an odd one: like a documentary intercut with a Renoir film.

It's odd that a harrowing documentary about one of America's most catastrophic disasters ended up being one of the most uplifting and transcendent shows of 2012's London Jazz Festival.

The odd mix of traditional documentary and reenactments in The Abolitionists simply unsettles me.

It is odd but perhaps inevitable that documentaries about the lives of great popular musicians — who can be intensely, even pathologically idiosyncratic people — tend to look alike.