Sentences with phrase «real documentary footage»

These insights are made up of real documentary footage and help to build upon the narrative.

Not exact matches

Whereas once fly - on - the - wall documentaries and candid camera footage gave us an insight into real families and real situations, nowadays you're more like to find this sort of depiction in your average soap.

This occurs outside the piano lesson Samuel has insisted she take (though she has declared her preference for swimming, in effect, present bodyguard over absent dad), which underlines Creasy's dad function, and also, as Scott notes, shows the character's thinking, by way of a stunning visual composition: «It feels like part documentary, part grabbed real footage, and part opera.

Ironically, it comes with a few moments of documentary footage of the real - life hostages returning home — the most human and touching point in the film.

Apparently taking real World War II documentary footage as its model, Spielberg's invasion of Omaha Beach was shot documentary - style.

Fortunately, employing its tried - and - true aesthetic — a docudrama visual approach; portentous narration; real - life documentary footage inserted into key moments — it hits its stride in Episode 4.

The Real James Dean: From Indiana Farmboy to Hollywood Legend is a documentary which explores both the public and private lives of this great star, including readings from his journals, rare footage from screen tests and wardrobe tests for his pictures, behind - the - scenes home movies from the making of East of Eden, and interviews with fans, friends, and co-workers.

Thankfully, it wasn't enough to ruin everything that came before, and the actual footage of the real - life events of the original documentary is a classy touch that does inspire by reminding us that there really are people out there that care enough to try to make a difference in our world, one person at a time.

Catch a glimpse of the real Burt Munro and some 1971 historical footage in the documentary Offerings to the God of Speed.

Other notable documentary subjects include Jean - Michel Basquiat, who commands the downtown NYC scene of the late»70s and early»80s in Sara Driver's BOOM FOR REAL The Late Teenage Years of Jean - Michel Basquiat; and Jane Goodall, whose original expedition to contact a chimpanzee population is brought back to life via 50 - year - old National Geographic footage in Brett Morgen's Jane.

An intriguing documentary combining interviews and footage interwoven with clips from the major motion picture, Saving Mr Banks (starring Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks) plus new interviews with the cast, The Real Mary Poppins finally reveals the enigma that was Pamela Travers and the origin of one of the most popular characters in fiction.

I really enjoyed all the archival footage and documentary - like bits that they kept in there, as it made it all feel more real and important, rather than just entertainment.

If anything, the performances are hindered due to the wealth of footage that has been seen in no less than four documentaries featuring the real people.

Berg mixes documentary footage in seamlessly, grounding everything in reality, and he lets the actors draw out the flaws in these real - life people.

The Oscar - winning wartime documentary The Memphis Belle (1944), directed by famed William Wyler (then a Lieutenant Colonel) and released by the War Department, presented real - life footage of dozens of Allied bombing missions by the Flying Fortress» B - 17 bomber during the war.

«Fruitvale Station,» though it begins with real - life footage, is not a documentary; instead, it's a fact - based portrait of Grant's last day, and a moving reminder that he wasn't a statistic but somebody's father, somebody's friend, somebody's son.

In Abbas Kiarostami's arresting 1990 drama Close - Up, the director created a half - documentary, half - dramatized account of Hossein Sabzian's attempted impersonation of Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, combining real footage of Sabzian's trial with reenactments of true - life events starring the people who were really involved.

«LoveTrue,» which also premiered on Friday, is a documentary that feels like a troubled but lovely fever dream, a look at three different subjects that mixes verite footage with re-enactments, and then deconstructs those sequences by having the actors talk to the real subjects.

Like Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (based, unlike this, on real events), Tears of the Sun opens with documentary footage of random shootings and maimed bodies to validate its (in this case) spurious reality.

On October 30, 1938, the Columbia Broadcasting System aired Orson Welles's War of the Worlds radio drama, which was essentially found - footage horror — radio fiction imitating the form of radio documentary — and which famously inspired real - world panic.

The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden Released in 2013, this documentary cleverly splices video footage, letters, and other archival material to recount a real - life murder mystery involving a self - proclaimed baroness, her lovers, and other settlers on Floreana Island in the 1930s.