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* Creator/SaschaBaronCohen does these by playing a bizarre character who is hosting a television show or documentary and interviewing people who do not realize that he's playing a character. Both of his films are based on characters he created for ''Series/DaAliGShow'', which has a similar theme.

* ''Film/DropDeadGorgeous'' has camera crew records the lives of several teenage girls in a small Minnesota town as they compete for a spot in beauty pageant sponsored by a cosmetics company, and also documents a number of mysterious deaths among a number of competitors.

* Like [[Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows the film of the same name]] that it is based on, ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'', is about a documentary crew following a group of vampires around during their nightly antics.

* The "Trope Of The Week" series ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'' is a ShowWithinAShow - the characters are creating a vlog for Wiki/TVTropes, and ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'' details the process the characters go through in order to make that vlog happen. [[spoiler: It doesn't.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' had season five's "The Powerpuff Girls: A Documentary." Also, part of "Meet The Beat-Alls" took the form of a documentary on how Mojo Jojo, Him, Fuzzy Lumpkins and Princess Morbucks attained success as the Beat-Alls (paralleling that of Music/TheBeatles).

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* ''Series/TheMuppets'' is a mockumentary set behind the scenes at a talk show starring Miss Piggy and produced by the rest of Franchise/TheMuppets. Basically, it's similar to the backstage scenes from ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and ''Series/MuppetsTonight'', except for the ConfessionCam.

* ''Videogame/BioShockInfinite'' had adverts portraying the city of Columbia as the subject of a [=1980s-style=] TV documentary "Columbia: A Modern Day Icarus?", showing off {{feelies}} and [[TheMerch merchandise]] as if they were artifacts of a vanished city-state that seceded from the USA. The ''Burial at Sea'' {{DLC}} had a similar one examining Rapture.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9do_Hr3NaWY This Campus Movie Fest best comedy winner]] uses the Mockumentary approach, detailing the careers of a fictional comedy duo from the early twentieth century -- the ''first'' comedic film duo, as it happens. The doc is presented without irony, but the content of it is [[RuleOfFunny so absurd]] and it turns InherentlyFunnyWords [[UpToEleven up so high]] that you can't help but laugh.

* ''Film/BrothersOfTheHead'' about conjoined twins in the 1970s '''sold''' by their father to be stars in a freakish rock band.

* Peter Greenaway's ''Film/TheFalls'' (1980) is a mockumentary that catalogs [[MetaOrigin event-created]] mutants who have undergone mental and physical changes in the [[CataclysmBackstory "Violent Unknown Event"]]. Some of them have water-based dreams, others have physical mutations or have dreams about birds, and others spontaneously learn bizarre, almost-alien languages (One of the languages in the movie, Abcadefghan, when spoken is actually Estonian). The mutations resemble a recently discovered biological mutation process that doesn't follow the typical Darwinian process of sexual transmission of new mutations to descendants, but instead involves acquired traits created by changes in the way the body creates proteins. The mockumentary is noteworthy in that it was made '''three decades''' before scientists figured this out.

** For Shark Week 2014 they followed the trend with ''Shark of Darkness Wrath of Submarine'' and ''Megalodon: The New Evidence''.

* The Creator/AnimalPlanet did several of these. In the vein of ''Film/DragonsAFantasyMadeReal'',
''Film/MermaidsTheBodyFound'' is about the fictional discovery of a mermaid-like body and the supposed science behind it.

* The Creator/AnimalPlanet documentary ''Film/MermaidsTheBodyFound'', about the fictional discovery of a mermaid-like body and the supposed science behind it.

** In 2015 there was ''The Cannibal in the Jungle'' which was about uncovering a case in the 1970s where two scientists were murdered and cannibalized on the Indonesian island of Flores and the creatures responsible being three foot humanoid ape-like creatures referred to as “Hobbits”.

** Likewise, the Creator/DiscoveryChannel's ''Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives'', broadcast for Shark Week 2013. The Discovery Channel took a lot of flak for not making it sufficiently clear that the show was fake, but they got great ratings.

* The WarTimeCartoon ''WesternAnimation/TokioJokio'' is presented as a news reel captured from the Axis [[note]] Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Japan during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII[[/note]], but is mostly an excuse to make jokes at their expense.

* ''Film/GoingShopping'' (2005): The movie is filmed documentary style.

* ''Being Michael Madsen'' is a mockumentary movie in which the Rayban-wearing, gravelly-voiced actor Creator/MichaelMadsen uses the fact that he's best known for playing ear-severing psychos to great effect. He is making a movie when a young female star disappears, and he is somehow involved...

* ''Brothers of the Head'' about conjoined twins in the 1970s '''sold''' by their father to be stars in a freakish rock band.

* ''Confetti'' (c. 2006) -- A British film about three couples (including [[NakedPeopleAreFunny a pair of nudists]]) getting married.

* Peter Greenaway's ''The Falls'' (1980) is a mockumentary that catalogs [[MetaOrigin event-created]] mutants who have undergone mental and physical changes in the [[CataclysmBackstory "Violent Unknown Event"]]. Some of them have water-based dreams, others have physical mutations or have dreams about birds, and others spontaneously learn bizarre, almost-alien languages (One of the languages in the movie, Abcadefghan, when spoken is actually Estonian). The mutations resemble a recently discovered biological mutation process that doesn't follow the typical Darwinian process of sexual transmission of new mutations to descendants, but instead involves acquired traits created by changes in the way the body creates proteins. The mockumentary is noteworthy in that it was made '''three decades''' before scientists figured this out.
* ''Fear of a Black Hat'' (1994) is basically ''Spinal Tap'' for the Hip-Hop crowd.

** In 2015 there was ''The Cannibal in the Jungle'' which was about uncovering a case in the 1970s where two scientists were murdered and cannibalized on an Indonesian island of Flores and the creatures responsible being three foot humanoid ape-like creatures referred to as “Hobbits”.

** In 2015 there was ''The Cannibal in the Jungle'' which was about uncovering a case in the 1970s where two scientists were murdered and cannibalized on an Indonesian island of and the creatures responsible being three foot humanoid ape-like creatures referred to as “Hobbits”.

** In 2015 there was ''The Cannibal in the Jungle'' which was about uncovering a case in the 1979s where two scientists were murdered and cannibalized on an Indonesian island of and the creatures responsible being three foot humanoid ape-like creatures referred to as “Hobbits”.

** In 2015 there was ''The Cannibal in the Jungle'' which was about two scientists that were murdered and cannibalized in the 1970s on the Indonesian island of Flores and the creatures responsible being three foot humanoid ape-like creatures referred to as “Hobbits”.

** In 2015 there was ''The Cannibal in the Jungle'' was about two scientists that were murdered and cannibalized in the 1970s on the Indonesian island of Flores and the creatures responsible being short humanoid ape-like creatures referred to as “Hobbits”.

** In 2015 there was ''The Cannibal in the Jungle'' which was about two scientists were murdered and cannibalized in the 1970s on the Indonesian island of Flores and the creatures responsible being short humanoid-apes like creatures referred to as “Hobbits”.

** In 2015 there was ''The Cannibal in the Jungle'' where two scientists were murdered and cannibalized in the 1970s on the Indonesian island of Flores, with the creatures responsible being short humanoid-apes like creatures referred to as “Hobbits”.

** There was also ''Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives'', which attempts to connect myths of Yetis and Sasquatch with the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident Dyatlov Pass incident]].

** There was also ''Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives'', which attempts to connect myths of Yeti with the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident Dyatlov Pass incident]].