similar films

The film Tristrum Shandy was a film mostly about the crew creating a film about a book that was impossible to film. It comes off like a very long special feature of the making of a film.... unfortunately for those of us stupid enough to buy the DVD, no actual film emerges. Some people love the film, but personally, as a fan of the original book -- Tristrum Shandy -- I'd rather have seen Lawrence Sterns book on scene than a mockumentary about the filming of a book that is unfilmable.


ps. it is a commedy.
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RIGOLETTO: I'm denied that common human right, to weep.

I haven't seen The Grand, but another fakeumentary film that's not as good as Best In Show, but pretty good is Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, which is about a paintball team. It has some great moments, and if you like the Daily Show or Human Giant, you'll definitely recognize some familiar faces.

Finishing the Game

Not fake, but really funny and/or entertaining docs:

Air Guitar Nation, Word Wars, Darkon, The King of Kong, and Murderball

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The obvious ones:

This is Spinal Tap
Waiting for Guffman
A Mighty Wind
Reno 911: Miami

Most mockumentaries are TV shows at the moment (Thanks to The Office UK).

Can't believe nobody mentioned Incident at Loch Ness since it is by the same director. I guess not many people have seen it. It's one of my favorites because for much of the film someone could conceivably believe it is a real documentary, but it's hilarious. It's about Werner Herzog's ill-fated attempt to make a film about the Loch Ness monster.

the best one by far is Super Troopers but Hot Fuzz is decent as well.

It's missing what I think is the best mockumentary ever

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

It's daring, disrespectful and outrageously funny. And it's a mockumentary by definition as almost every sequence shot were not scripted. Sasha Baron Cohen and his crew went to see real people pretending to shot a documentary about America for Kazahkstan television.

Definitly a movie to see if you like the genre.

Another more obscure film for any non french-speaking country (and probably much harder to get, especially with at least subtitles english subtitles) is

C'est Arrivé Près de Chez Vous

Way more outrageous than Borat but this time scripted with mostly amateur actors, but Mockumentary nonetheless.

It's about a serial-killer that gets a film crew to follow him during it's killing-spree commenting and giving tips about his "buisness". It's very dark humours but I guess if you laughed at Borat you would laugh harder at this one, granted you get a copy of it.

"...And God Spoke" is one of my favorite mockumentaries ever