History Main / Mockumentary

* ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3612398/ 1985]]'' (1970) described an ecological catastrophe, with bulletins given by real-life newsmen of the day.

* ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3199240/ The Great Martian War 1913-1917]]'' had Creator/TheHistoryChannel jumping on the bandwagon. They later did it again in 2015 with ''Bigfoot Captured''.

* The graphic novel ''The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists'' present itself as the history of Canadian comic books and strips, but towards the end, creator Seth admits that he made up almost all of it.

* For ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', Creator/JoshBrolin filmed a 9-minute comedic documentary called "Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes", which contains tongue-in-cheek snippets of himself and various other people who worked on the film like Creator/JavierBardem and Creator/WoodyHarrelson talking about the making of the movie, which also includes clips from the actual documentary about the making of the movie. The short pokes fun at Creator/TheCoenBrothers by describing them as InsufferableGenius taskmasters, has Javier Bardem jokingly admit that he gained weight for his part not for the character, but because he "felt like shit", and contains Woody Harrelson babble incoherently about alternative medicine.

* ''Literature/TheLostWorld1912'' -- The Arthur Conan Doyle one, not the Michael Crichton one. The entire frame is a news reporter [[ScrapbookStory writing letters]] back to his newspaper, with the climax being an article written by one of his colleagues (since he's in the debriefing conference).

* ''ARG/SkyBox'' is an AlternateRealityGame with the premise of the mystery being primarily told through a series of documentary-style investigations, with the videos often providing leads that users can explore themselves.

* ''Film/ComicBookTheMovie'' is a largely improvised time capsule of early 2000's geek culture directed, co-written, and starring Creator/MarkHamill about the ultimate fan of a superhero, called Commander Courage, who clashes against a studio wanting to make a DarkerAndEdgier movie adaptation of the character. A large portion of the movie was shot on-location at the 2002 San Diego Comic Con.

* ''WebOriginal/PusheenTheCat'': The short ''[[https://youtu.be/HU5Qq97cxvU Pusheen Breads: A Documentary]]'', which is just animated footage of sentient loaves of bread shaped like Pusheen but presented like a nature documentary. It's even credited to "[[Creator/NationalGeographicChannel Nyational Biographic]]".

* In ''[[https://pw-kink-meme.dreamwidth.org/11528.html?thread=16630536#cmt16630536 The Beautiful Yet Odd Methods of the Humans]]'', a lawyer's pet hawk concludes that the CourtoomAntic[=s=] he witnesses daily are an elaborate mating ritual.

* ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'', the story of an aging British rock group in their fading days of stardom. They struggle with playing continually smaller venues, incompetent band members, and the reality that they may be losing their fame. The film is directed by Creator/RobReiner, who wrote only an outline of the film and allows the cast to improvise most of the dialogue in the film. ''This Is Spinal Tap'' is generally considered the TropeCodifier of the mockumentary.

* The ''Literature/OlogySeries'' is a series of books on various topics (vampires, spies, ancient egypt, etc.) presented asthe work of fictional researchers. Some even have {{Apocalyptic Log}}s scrawled in the margins.

* ''Literature/TheStoneDiaries'': This novel is a fictional biography of protagonist Daisy Goodwill Flett. The book's dedication to this idea includes a family tree in the beginning, and, even more surprisingly, pictures of all the fictional characters in the middle of the book. In interviews, author Carol Shields explained that she used older pictures that she found in archives, and her own children and family for the younger pictures.