Example sentences for: documentary

How can you use “documentary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • NBC's tabloidy Dateline , already on four times a week, is called "as close to local TV news as anything the networks have yet come up with" (Richard Zoglin, Time ). Meanwhile, a highly praised PBS documentary about 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt prompts critics to note that show's downfall as well.

  • I just saw an early cut of a great documentary on George Wallace that will play Sundance in January and then air on PBS's American Experience in April.

  • The Italian twin drives Nic--who turns out to be a documentary film director--to the desert of Tunisia, where there is further betrayal, loss of sexual innocence, exploitation of Third World peoples, and a tragic retaliation.

  • The three student filmmakers depicted in the movie, who present themselves in home videos and snippets of their planned black-and-white "documentary," seemed like real people.

  • Other photographers of Levinthal's generation, such as Cindy Sherman, have testified to the influence of "Hitler Moves East" in pushing photography away from the sternly mimetic documentary style of the 1960s toward a more playful, artificial relation to the world.


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