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* ''[[Medium Cool]]'' (1969) -- Filmed documentary-style during the Chicago 1968 riots, following the life of a [[Pinball Protagonist|TV cameraman]]. Possibly the greatest example of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]].
* ''[[Confetti]]'', (c. 2006) -- A British film about three couples (including [[Naked People Are Funny|a pair of nudists]]) getting married.
* ''[[Cloverfield]]'' (2008) -- [[Attack of the 50
* ''[[District 9]]'' (2009) is filmed partially in this style, with documentary segments and interviews about the history of the alien presence on Earth interspersed with conventionally shot scenes.
* [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Zelig]]'' -- about the life of a dysfunctional "human chameleon" that lived during the 1920s.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Entire show examples:
** ''[[Reno 911]]'', a specific parody of the ''[[Cops (series)]]'' style reality-documentary.
** Canadian comedy series ''[[Trailer Park Boys]]'' has the premise of being a documentary that follows the day-to-day lives of several guys who live in a trailer park. Occasionally, even the "film crew" gets involved, such as when the mike boom guy takes a stray bullet in the leg.
** ''[[The Office]]'' and all its imitators, including the German counterpart ''[[Stromberg]]''.
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* ''Life Beyond The Box'' was a series of two [[The BBC|BBC]] mockumentaries looking at the lives of 1970s sitcom characters [[Porridge|Norman Stanley Fletcher]] and [[The Good Life|Margot Leadbetter]]. The former reunited the cast of the original; the latter didn't, with even Margot herself being [[The Other Darrin|Other Darrined]].
* A British news show in the '50s played an April Fool on its audience, doing a segment about how spaghetti grows on trees. Pasta not being a common foodstuff there at the time, a lot of British viewers had no clue it was fake, and phoned the BBC to ask how they could grow their own spaghetti trees.
* ''Operation Repo'' is a series on TruTV] that is about repomen and it is filmed like [[Cops (series)]], but it is also scripted.
* One of the earlier examples: ''[[The Rutles]]: All You Need is Cash'', mocking documentaries of The Beatles, and one of Rob Reiner's inspirations for [[Spinal Tap]].
* ''[[Lost Tapes]]'' plays at being the tapes of people who encountered cryptozoological monsters--few of whom to survive the encounters.
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