Sentence examples for too many documentaries from inspiring English sources

Too many documentaries, he says, are made for people who already know the arguments.

Peter Moffat, the Bafta award-winning screenwriter of Silk, said: "In a television era when too many documentaries are essentially freak shows written, shot and edited to ask an audience to laugh at people with mental health issues, writers of television drama have a special responsibility to work against stereotyping and to create characters who are complex and engaging".

The series avoided the excruciating howlers that wreck all too many documentaries: I have a particular horror of British soldiers, purportedly on the retreat from Mons in August 1914, wearing the steel helmet that came into service in the spring of 1916.

" Personally I think the BBC are making too many documentaries at the moment, often duplicating the subject matter.

I know what else you're thinking: You're thinking there are too many documentary-style television shows about large families.

But simply listing these new films raises a troubling question: Are too many Holocaust documentaries now being made?

But like too many short documentaries, it can't do justice to its complex topic or finally to those of us watching.

Too many recent documentaries feel like push-button filmmaking, where filmmakers push the buttons on their cameras and also those on the participants, who seem to disgorge their reflections and experiences on cue.

"Too many great documentaries are made each year, and only a select number receive a theatrical run," said Ted Leonsis, the founder and chairman of SnagFilms, which has made a business of aggregating documentaries and distributing them both via Web sites and, under a recent arrangement, on fee-based channels through Comcast and Verizon's FiOS service.

The man who campaigned on behalf of forgotten thalidomide victims, brought the world's attention to the plight of Cambodians under Pol Pot in 1979 and was standing next to Robert Kennedy when he was assassinated, said too many young documentary makers are convinced they "have to produce a form of reality television".

Too many of your documentaries feel like medicine.