On the side of authenticity are several pictures deemed to be "straight documentary," or are they sometimes propaganda?

By contrast the Discovery Channel offers a straight documentary telling of the Apollo 11 story in "When We Left Earth: 40th Anniversary Special."

The experience is different from watching the news or straight documentaries.

The festival isn't all straight documentary.

But then they end up having to use actors because everybody's bored by straight documentary.

The lack of laugh track and the dead-pan approach led some viewers to believe they were encountering a "straight" documentary.

BookWars veers stylistically from straight or journalistic documentaries through its use of creative devices.

And Lou and Keith hadn't done anything other than straight documentaries.

But to make a straight documentary on the 1992 disturbances would be to obliterate Ms. Smith's amazing artistry.

Still, it was not, after all, a straight documentary, but a bet.