Sentence examples for plain documentary from inspiring English sources

"Keeping It Real," which opens today at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater (155 East Third Street, East Village), is at its best when it's just a plain documentary that shows Mr. Walloch navigating around New York and records the highlights of actual stage performances.

Just as Nâzım Hikmet chose a plain, documentary style rather than the formality of traditional Turkish poetry in order to achieve a heightened sense of realism, Panahi's Taxi, with its artfully staged "reality," is a coy response to the new technological naïveté.

John H. Smihula's "Hidden in Plain Sight," a documentary on the United States Army's School of the Americas, brings together material from several politically engaged films about the government's activity in Latin America, creating a sort of anthology of atrocity.

Kon Ichikawa, the Japanese film director whose versatility ranged beyond his well-known antiwar dramas like "The Burmese Harp" and "Fires on the Plain" to comedies, documentaries and literary adaptations, died on Wednesday in Tokyo.

A fearsome mandate for political action is made plain elsewhere in the documentary, however.

As the documentary makes plain, the grand jury didn't care to find out what really happened.

Her documentary work was plain, and plaintive.

For me, it had neither the energy of Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street nor the plain informative clarity of a documentary like Charles Ferguson's Inside Job.

A documentary that is plain in its execution, but rich in drama and in the glimpses it gives us of other worlds, Nati Baratz's "UNMISTAKEN CHILD" (opening Wednesday at Film Forum) follows a young Buddhist monk's four-year search for a Nepalese or Tibetan child who will be recognized as the reincarnation of a top lama.

The documentary is just plain fascinating.

In essence, "Surviving R. Kelly" got the wider public talking about a man who had, in the words of the documentary, "hidden in plain sight" for years, abusing women and girls of color with relative impunity.