Early examples Early work, including Luis Buñuel's 1933 Land Without Bread,Otway, Fiona. "The Unreliable Narrator in Documentary". Journal of Film and Video, vol. 67, no. 3–4, 2015, pp. 3–23. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.67.3-4.0003. Accessed 19 November 2020. Orson Welles's 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, various April Fools' Day news reports, and vérité-style film and television during the 1960s and 1970s, served as precursor to the genre. Early examples of mock-documentaries include various films by Peter Watkins, such as The War Game (1965), Privilege (1967), and the dystopic Punishment Park (1971).
Early examples Early work, including Luis Buñuel's 1933 Land Without Bread,Otway, Fiona. "The Unreliable Narrator in Documentary". Journal of Film and Video, vol. 67, no. 3–4, 2015, pp. 3–23. JSTOR, .www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.67.3-4.0003. Accessed 19 November 2020. Orson Welles's 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, various April Fools' Day news reports, and vérité-style film and television during the 1960s and 1970s, served as precursor to the genre. Early examples of mock-documentaries include various films by Peter Watkins, such as The War Game (1965), Privilege (1967), and the dystopic Punishment Park (1971).