JoCoLibrary - Adult - Mockumentaries

Annotation:Follows the antics of dog owners participating in the fictionalized "Mayflower Dog Show."

Annotation:When a Scottish hairdresser is flown to Los Angeles to participate in the "Platinum Scissors" competition, he quickly finds out that his invitation was sent in error.

Annotation:Three film students travel to Maryland to make a student film about a local urban legend, the Blair Witch. One year later, the students are gone but their video is found in the woods.

Annotation:Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev (played by Sacha Baron Cohen) travels to America to make a documentary, ultimately exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.

Annotation:Sacha Baron Cohen brings another character, a flamboyant, gay Austrian model, to the States.

Annotation:Two history teachers encounter psychological hardships during the school semester.

Annotation:When a group of friends at a party in New York discover that a monster is attacking the city, they use a video camera to document the invasion and the destruction that follows.

Annotation:Former B-list sitcom star Valerie Cherish (played by Lisa Kudrow) is so desperate to revive her career that she agrees to star in a reality television show called "The Comeback."

Annotation:A comic book aficionado gets the opportunity to direct a documentary featurette about his favorite comic book hero.

Annotation:Follows three couples as they compete in a magazine competition to find the most unique and originally themed wedding.

Annotation:Explores an alternative history of the United States beginning with the Civil war being won by the South, having an alliance with Germany against Japan, and a cold war with Canada.

Annotation:Twenty years after the arrival of an alien ship over Johannesburg, South Africa, the creatures have been segregated from humanity. When one human discovers the secret behind their technology he is hunted down inside the alien district.

Annotation:An overbearing, civic-minded mother stops at nothing to ensure that her daughter wins a teen beauty contest.

Annotation:Follows Joaquin Phoenix as he transitions from a career in acting to attempting a career as a rapper.

Annotation:Follows three folk bands as they reunite for a benefit performance for their deceased manager.

Annotation:Three non-traditional families face everyday challenges.

Annotation:Follows a world-famous rock band as they confront fame, girls, band break-ups, and impending adolescence.

Annotation:Follows the comedic exploits of a paper supply company in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Annotation:Follows an bumbling but earnest city employee as she attempts to build a park.

Annotation:When a reporter and her cameraman follow Los Angeles firemen into an apartment building in response to a distress call, they and the residents are locked inside by the CDC with a vicious infection spreading through the building.

Annotation:Follows the antics of the sheriff's department in Reno, Nevada.

Annotation:A young penguin travels from his home in Antarctica to take part in a surfing competetion and meets new friends along the way.

Annotation:An early Woody Allen mockumentary in which a compulsive thief can't manage to steal without being caught.

Annotation:In a satirical look at rock groups and their performances, an old British group fumbles their way through one more tour.

Annotation:A former big-city musical star gathers the residents of Blaine, Missouri together to create a production in hopes of being discovered.

Annotation:Stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact.
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A mockumentary is a fictitious documentary-style film or TV show.
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