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He has a self-portrait as a soldier from World War I and I saw that painting while watching some weird Shock Of The News-type documentary.
But some Americans will cast ballots after being targeted by a rather different group of creative types: documentary filmmakers.
Because much of the content produced for VR is wordless — including travel-type documentaries, games and animated films — it may move more rapidly across borders than TV shows and movies that require extensive subtitling.
As an example of this type of documentary, check out one of Michael Moore's early documentaries, Roger & Me.
I saw the George Harrison film [directed by Martin Scorsese] which was fantastic, but I'm not interested in the found-footage, talking-head type of documentary.
He and his third wife, American musician Peggy Seeger, pioneered a type of documentary, the "radio-ballad," combining recorded interviews with songs and narration.
MTV's "Real World,' the real-life soap opera about young people living together, constitutes a type of documentary and shows it "to be a very adaptable form," he said.
Another type of documentary, with a little more ironic detachment, would have played up the hilarious tinseltown nightmare of McQueen's Le Mans, and been much more candid about him being an egomaniacal pain.
Mr. Lee pointed to series like National Geographic's "Locked Up Abroad" about tourists who end up in foreign prisons, as the type of documentary series he hoped the channel would do.
At about the same time, the British director H. Bruce Woolfe reconstructed battles of World War I in a series of compilation films, a type of documentary that bases an interpretation of history on factual news material.
