1. Also television documentaries are making increasing use of archive film from the stores of national and regional film archives. 2. Although HBO Sports documentaries often make use of standard archives, the preference now is to track down rare scenes. 3. And while the results of the overarching enterprise appear worthwhile, the documentary also makes clear that an ideal society is not easily achieved. 4. As the documentary makes clear, many of those myths began with the Beatles themselves, particularly with Lennon, who sometimes embellished his war stories. 5. A good documentary makes life into a narrative. 6. But his coach-father, Press, was hardly the cruel taskmaster that the documentaries made him out to be. 7. But, as this documentary makes clear, with Reagan the world was as much a battle between absolute good and absolute evil as his old black-and-white movies. 8. Documentaries often make the better shows on video. 9. If Russell has projected coldness through his choice to be a nonpublic person, the documentary makes him understandable, even warms him up. |