by Donald Blake November 17, 2013
Television shows that very few normal people watch. It must be said, however, that wildlife documentaries are excellently produced and carefully wrought.
David Attenborough. Does he do anything else?
by Comrade Dmitri February 25, 2004
Evan’s Documentary is the most legendary documentary ever made. Evan made a documentary of a school year and the random things that go on in it.
Hey Evan how’s Evan’s Documentary going?
Well it’s great, the most random things go on in it.
I love Evan’s Documentary it’s the best! Evan's Documentary
Well it’s great, the most random things go on in it.
I love Evan’s Documentary it’s the best! Evan's Documentary
by PewWew April 22, 2021
A phrase used for people who are beyond obese. Initiated by Kevin Bridges in one of his stand up routines. If someone is Documentary Obese it means they are so fat that they can be found on channel 4 or 5 at around 8:00 on a weeknight, telling people how much they way and how addicted to jaffa cakes and mars bars they are.
David: Did you see that chick back there, she was so fat i bet her fanny had flab growing on it
Ben: Dude, she wasn't fat, nor was she obese. David my dear chum, she was documentary fat.
Ben: Dude, she wasn't fat, nor was she obese. David my dear chum, she was documentary fat.
by 09rob1234 December 4, 2011
n.
In aspiring to open the imagination upon reality, Surrealism blurs the distinction between fact and fiction. In Surrealist documentaries the realistic effect is used to hook the viewer into the world represented by the film in order to disrupt taken-for-granted assumptions about that world. In Surrealist documentary, commentary is either absent, sparse or stripped of its dominance, becoming more of a dissonant or contrapuntal voice.
In aspiring to open the imagination upon reality, Surrealism blurs the distinction between fact and fiction. In Surrealist documentaries the realistic effect is used to hook the viewer into the world represented by the film in order to disrupt taken-for-granted assumptions about that world. In Surrealist documentary, commentary is either absent, sparse or stripped of its dominance, becoming more of a dissonant or contrapuntal voice.
Examples of Surrealist Documentary:
- “Häxan” (English title: The Witches or Witchcraft Through The Ages) is a 1922 Swedish/Danish silent film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts.
- “Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan” (1933), (English language: Land Without Bread or Unpromised Land) is a 27-minute-long documentary film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-produced by Buñuel and Ramon Acin. The narration was written by Buñuel, Rafael Sanchez Ventura, and Pierre Unik, with cinematography by Eli Lotar. The film focuses on the Las Hurdes region of Spain, the mountainous area around the town La Alberca, and the intense poverty of its occupants. Buñuel, who made the film after reading the ethnographic study Las Jurdes: étude de géographie humaine (1927) by Maurice Legendre, took a Surrealist approach to the notion of the anthropological expedition. The result was a travelogue in which the narrator’s extreme (indeed, exaggerated) descriptions of human misery of Las Hurdes contrasts with his flat and uninterested manner.
- “F for Fake” (1974), an Orson Welles film documenting/embellishing/fabricating information about "fakery" in general and about the famous "fakers" Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving.
- “Häxan” (English title: The Witches or Witchcraft Through The Ages) is a 1922 Swedish/Danish silent film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts.
- “Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan” (1933), (English language: Land Without Bread or Unpromised Land) is a 27-minute-long documentary film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-produced by Buñuel and Ramon Acin. The narration was written by Buñuel, Rafael Sanchez Ventura, and Pierre Unik, with cinematography by Eli Lotar. The film focuses on the Las Hurdes region of Spain, the mountainous area around the town La Alberca, and the intense poverty of its occupants. Buñuel, who made the film after reading the ethnographic study Las Jurdes: étude de géographie humaine (1927) by Maurice Legendre, took a Surrealist approach to the notion of the anthropological expedition. The result was a travelogue in which the narrator’s extreme (indeed, exaggerated) descriptions of human misery of Las Hurdes contrasts with his flat and uninterested manner.
- “F for Fake” (1974), an Orson Welles film documenting/embellishing/fabricating information about "fakery" in general and about the famous "fakers" Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving.
by Jrskow July 16, 2011
When one self-proclaims themselves an 'expert' or know-it-all on a said subject of a documentary or documentaries they have watched; when they never actually went to school to study or experience said subject.
Documentary Expert: "America was discovered in 1492 by Columbus, I have watched tons of documentaries on it."
Guy that actually knows something: "No you idiot, America was actually discovered over 400 years before Christopher Columbus even laid his eyes on it."
Guy that actually knows something: "No you idiot, America was actually discovered over 400 years before Christopher Columbus even laid his eyes on it."
by AndrewTFowler March 17, 2012
After seeing such well made movies as VALLEY OF ELAH, and WAR WITH OUT END I was kind of searching for pro Iraq war documentary's
seems to me that the Republicans could get Halliburton to fund something..
seems to me that the Republicans could get Halliburton to fund something..
With the hours or compelling movies on the current war i kind of would like to see a pro Iraq war documentary....i guess the current administration didn't anticipate how sending the bulk of the movie going public to war might create bad press..and of course military families are so disregarded that they might not have extra money for that kind of stuff..
by DaynaS March 24, 2008