Documentaries that use staged footage?

Question

I need a number of examples
of documentaries that use
staged footage. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You know those seenes where you see the cheeta running then you see the gazelle, but they are never in the same frame. Yeah, that is staged.

Answer 2

The very first truly global documentary hit 'Nanook of the North' used staged footage as the camera kept freezing and so the Eskimos were asked to repeat actions.

Answer 3

The television documentary "Victory at Sea" used a lot of footage shot in Hollywood.

Answer 4

Bowling for Columbine: the scene where they protest outside of K-Mart (I think, but def not Wal-Mart) corporate headquarters to stop the sale of guns.

I don't know if you would count this, because it wasn't staged, but it was edited to be taken out of context in order to give opinions and impressions that were unintended by the interviewees: several parts of Farenheit 9/11. In particular, the state trooper in Oregon's statements. He was outraged and sued Moore for misrepresenting him and editing the heck out of what he truly said. He said so in an interview in that docu answer film to Farenheit, but I can't recall the name.

Also, when M. Moore waits outside Charlton Heston's home until he agrees to talk to him (he was the president of the NRA at the time). It was well known by Moore and all of Hollywood at that time that Heston had Alzheimers and was in no shape to face a hardcore interview, much less any interview. Moore tore him to pieces. It was after Farenheit was released that Heston had to have a press release statement telling the world of his illness.

I'm not sure if these examples will exactly qualify. I actually enjoy Moore's documentaries, but I'm well aware that I can't take anything he says as factual, which means they don't exactly qualify as true documentaries.

Check out Roger & Me. It was his first and his best, in my opinion (before his head swelled up and got in the way of his good intentions).

Answer 5

Road to Guantanamo..

They don't flat out tell you any of it is staged, but there is no way in hell some of that footage was taken at the time.. these guys are being held in guantanamo, but the cameramen who were with them when they were caught were allowed to keep shooting for the years they were in there?.. Not likely.

Answer 6

"Touching the Void" was a documentary about a mountain climbing expedition gone bad. It had the survivors telling their story to the camera while actors re-enacted the situation.

The recent doc "Zoo" also made heavy use of re-enactments.

Answer 7

Anything by Michael Moore.