I hesitate to describe the pocket-size documentary "Sunset Story" as a gem of a film.
Through a wealth of postage-stamp-size documentary images, including style manuals, advertisements, posters and more, this book concisely examines the importance of and loyalty to good design at the corporate level.
This extravagant repository of her priceless masterpieces and throwaway mementos is celebrating its centenary year with an account of its own history in a pocket-size documentary show titled "The Making of the Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner as Collector, Architect and Designer".
That is one truth in "One Lucky Elephant," a sweet, heart- and trunk-tugging, modestly sized documentary — except for its 10,000-pound title subject — about a circus man and the wild animal he foolishly bought, helped to train, loved like a (captive) daughter and finally, tearfully, tried to do right by, mostly by letting her go.
There are plans to distribute the bite-size documentaries to theaters to play before the start of feature-length movies, and there are also efforts to give the films to schools, to supplement regular curricula.
MOVIES UNDER THE STARS "Super Size Me," documentary by Morgan Spurlock.
At the same time, in the age of "Animal Planet" and epic-size nature documentaries like "Blue Planet" and "Winged Migration," Crittercam research has yielded an entertainment dividend: a sort of reality TV for lions, emperor penguins, blue whales and leopard seals.
There are life-size reproductions, documentaries, children´s workshops, interactive games and a 3D recreation of a journey through time.
In 2004 "Super Size Me", a documentary, recorded the sickening result of eating solely at McDonald 'sfor a month.
"Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" is even more amusing than "Super Size Me," the documentary that put Mr. Spurlock on the moviemaking map in 2004.
Everyone wanted to make it with a small feature film crew, rather than make a feature with a documentary size crew.
