truth is stranger than fiction and
invented truth is stranger than both my
face is totally bummed up welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten
mockumentaries it’s fun to believe in
things but but Carl Sagan and his book
said just because it’s fun to believe in
things doesn’t mean that we should
believe in them for this list we’re
focusing on feature-length documentaries
a type of film in which fictional events
are presented documentary style to
create a parody that’s either comical or
serious I’d never mind out that it was
Alice’s body before you know it looked
we’ve decided to exclude found footage
films so if you’re looking for the Blair
Witch Project we’ve already got you
covered with our list of the top ten
found footage films number 10 Dark Side
of the Moon the Apollo program was in
fact the early stages of what was later
to become star wars the missile shield
for defending the United States director
William Carroll’s dark side of the moon
purports to tell the true story of the
1969 Apollo 11 moon landing you know the
deal that the whole thing was all faked
by director Stanley Kubrick at the
request of the CIA NASA’s decision to
lend Kubrick this legendary lens was the
culmination of a story that had begun 15
years before Carell tricked many people
including Kubrick’s Widow and astronaut
Buzz Aldrin into participating in his
mockumentary they became very aware how
important the visual spectacle spectacle
is going to be the result is dark style
film so skillfully done many conspiracy
theorists view it as a serious expose of
NASA’s duplicity they decided that the
space race had to be turned into a pure
Hollywood product to show so they came
to see us with with one goal it had to
be absolutely amazing
Hollywood could do it we could create
the dream all of Hollywood stopped
working on other projects just for this
I mean it was never seen before
number nine incident at Loch Ness this
whole thing about Loch Ness is more or
less a figment of our fantasy burner
Hertzog and Zak Penn collaborated on
this film-within-a-film mockumentary
connect me to the Scottish coast guard
Bob a Loch Ness I don’t know the number
Hertzog is supposedly filming a
documentary on the Loch Ness monster
Penn is an unscrupulous Hollywood
producer who creates a fake Nessie to
add drama to the proceedings start doing
your narration as soon as it goes in the
water okay except then the real Nessie
shows up
maybe incident at Loch Ness is
fascinating fun that examines the whole
concept of reality all as one big prank
that’s pathetic you shoot this shot or
I’m gonna shoot you okay I had heard the
stories about Kinski and about you know
Herzog directing Kinski with a gun
pointed at him and you know I just
thought the gun was there and you know I
wasn’t planning on shooting him number
eight it’s all gone Pete Tong he’s on a
different level now it’s how he listens
to records how he plays the records and
I think it’s very special
because no other DJ can do that this
Canadian mockumentary looks at Frankie
Wilde an incredibly successful DJ who’s
achieved wealth and fame the problem
he’s going deaf because he’s constantly
surrounded by loud music and drugs
Frankie’s problem is actually quite a
common problem amongst DJs it’s an
occupational hazard they work in the
clubs and the knowledge just takes its
toll
it’s all gone Pete Tong has some amazing
sequences particularly those in which
wild hallucinates about a giant badger
who represents his drug addiction an
emotional journey that’s both funny and
frustrating it’s an exciting comeback
story with a fake DJ at its core we got
these are the facts Frank these are the
facts Frank we can’t change them you are
deaf man you are a deaf man number seven
a mighty wind there had been abuse in my
family but it was mostly musical in
nature my father used to lock me away in
a room with nothing but the Percy Faith
recording of BIM BAM Bom and then send
me to bed with nothing but desert
Christopher Guest has made a career of
mockumentary
and a mighty win is one of his funniest
and surprisingly touching as well
just always kept you wanting to get
there to understand him which was
impossible in the film three long
disbanded folk groups reunite for a
special reunion concert well there’s a
puppy in the parlour Rena skillet on the
stove and a smelly old vachetta Neville
poking fun at a wide range of subjects
from folk music to the 1960s to show
business a mighty wind is a great
showcase for some of the most talented
improvisational actors in film I got an
idea a very literate reference I thought
you’re familiar with a book about a
pirate captain his name was Moby Dick he
was chasing us some big whale and he had
a catchphrase Eidos yell out there she
blows
so I thought if you could do that we’d
have some other states drench the whole
group with water number six
Man Bites Dog was really shuanzhu Nestor
no no no go back go haha dr. Halsey
sauce Asti Konoha Curie Belgium’s Man
Bites Dog is an extremely dark comedy
that falls a serial killer on his spree
of death and mayhem management to me the
listed gorilla
idealist Ellicott you are Rahab dildo
sentential Pascagoula just a work
account eg in national Accord oh no it’s
a good Friday night well yellow yellow
second aperitif us the fitting of its
subject matter Man Bites Dog is
graphically violent and the fact that
the killer is presented as witty and
charismatic and that the fictional film
crew becomes drawn into his world
offends many oh such a thing but it is
Oh again Oh saucer don’t bunny dude I
could all the money fig cheese cash
ready save it on the Cebu quadri the way
oho
but Man Bites Dog also makes serious
thoughtful points about celebrity and
humanity in the modern world through its
mockumentary style move unless I mean
clean soos condottieri I mean uh then
you come on get y’all gonna kill you got
you so fuckin copied up you say good
shot in two up one number five waiting
for Guffman it’s a tall tale that grows
taller with each passing year it’s the
story of blade director Christopher
Guest place Corky st. Clair a community
theater director in Blaine Missouri st.
Clair is engaged to create a production
in honor of the small town
sesquicentennial and the whole cast
becomes excited when a Broadway producer
announces his intent to see the show
they are the mysterious said in the
night air what what kind of sense what
was this mysterious scent it was the
scent of salt water filled with odd
characters and outlandishly quirky humor
Guffman lovingly captures the egoism and
exaggerated drama of amateur theatricals
while also paralleling Samuel Beckett’s
play Waiting for Godot in fact you know
there’s an old saying in Missouri that
if you don’t like the weather just wait
five minutes in Blaine I honestly
believe with hard work we can we can get
that down to three or four minutes
number four
fubar make it better turn up the good
turned on the sock aging stoners get the
mockumentary treatment in fubar oh they
like
to play some of the the worst of the
band which was at a dead leopard or sick
cougar or some of those a Canadian film
shot digitally on a very very low budget
to mulleted head-banging best friends
are chosen as the subjects for a
documentary about the common man ever
since I quit smoking
I just been coughing up the weirdest
shit between the beer-chugging sequences
or the trips to the doctor to battle
testicular cancer
this mockumentary is an unexpected
emotional rollercoaster but Terry you
just you know he treats me just like old
dinner you know basically what I want to
do is just get back on the saddle so to
speak and start jamming again touching
on themes of friendship loyalty maturity
and rocking out
fubar is both raucous Lee funny and at
times tender too Farrell the Pearl
number three Best in Show I’m sorry I’m
sorry you had to see that
Petrus can you look at us come on honey
mommy and daddy are over here the world
of pompous dog contests gets the
Christopher Guest treatment in Best in
Show which follows five canine entrants
and their owners at the Mayflower Kennel
Club dog show the energy that this
building will exude will be phenomenal
with winners and losers
although no one loses we don’t like to
say that but let’s face it some people
have a long drive home with many of
guests perennial favorite actors filling
the roles this mockumentary earned high
praise from critics excuse me we met at
Starbucks not at the same Starbucks
where we saw each other at different
Starbucks across the street from each
other from a hyper-competitive yuppie
couple to a small-town store owner with
a secret yen to be a ventriloquist on
the best one of years of fame the dock
owners are a mixed lot and they make for
some genuinely hilarious moments just
checking out the dogs testicular area to
make sure to make sure that that
everything is intact hate to go out on a
date with judge edy Franklin never judge
me that’d be no fun number two
Borat cultural learnings of America for
make benefit glorious nation of
Kazakhstan
yes abash I’m I never bought up I like
it you I like sex
it’s nice Sacha Baron Cohen’s unique
style of gorilla mockumentary making
burst onto the big screen with Borat it
was so well received he continued the
style in 2009’s Bruno but Borat is the
more successfully realized there’s some
showers up there took that out on live
pinpoint Doppler 16 radar this morning
take any they’re very nice yeah oh but
telling them we’re on here right now
doing the weather what’s your name
Cowen’s title character is a journalist
from Kazakhstan on a tour of the United
States which results in significant
culture shock and silliness so a not
joke was I would say that suit is black
not visa suit is not black no no not has
to be the end okay okay
this suit is black nut many of the
interactions are with real people who
believe Cohen was the character he
portrayed and this approach leads to
some unexpectedly honest reactions for
better or worse my name of marat safin
nice to meet yo get the fuck out here
before a cute job oh no okay okay what
the world wonder okay sorry
before we reveal our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions you become the
epitome of a king I made it here despite
the efforts of a few so now it’s time to
simply save Q that’s right in the
company of a Chinese person he begins to
develop
oriental features by now word has gotten
out to the press and the public
thirsting for thrills and novelty is
immediately captivated it wasn’t until
the next day that um Matthew was
reviewing the the footage that there was
an image of Alice
like a fix alone from a Midwestern S&L
he puts the money in a quick drying it
well takes a lost pets crosswalks to the
corner store pulls a knife Walter’s wife
can’t take it anymore
number one this is spinal tap
Rob Reiner is fictional documentary
this is spinal tap was not the first
mockumentary but it laid the groundwork
for all that came after it good drama
right look good drama yeah good yeah
fine well see him he died he died in a
bizarre gardening accident the film
follows the fictitious heavy metal band
spinal tap on a problem plagued US tour
from its vision of a teeny-tiny
Stonehenge set to an app that memorably
goes to 11 does that mean it’s louder is
it any louder well it’s one louder isn’t
it
this is spinal tap is comic brilliance
one why don’t you just make ten louder
and make ten be the top number and make
that a little louder these cards two
eleven so much so that the lead actors
have continued to reunite the band
periodically for some memorable concerts
and recordings
do you agree with our choices what other
outrageous mockumentary should we have
added to this list what other thing can
you switch off the television because I
made a fox at nine months of verifying
mr. Magorium’s wonder Emporium form or
in throttling top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com with its cute little
derriere yes God loves our terrier
invented truth is stranger than both my
face is totally bummed up welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten
mockumentaries it’s fun to believe in
things but but Carl Sagan and his book
said just because it’s fun to believe in
things doesn’t mean that we should
believe in them for this list we’re
focusing on feature-length documentaries
a type of film in which fictional events
are presented documentary style to
create a parody that’s either comical or
serious I’d never mind out that it was
Alice’s body before you know it looked
we’ve decided to exclude found footage
films so if you’re looking for the Blair
Witch Project we’ve already got you
covered with our list of the top ten
found footage films number 10 Dark Side
of the Moon the Apollo program was in
fact the early stages of what was later
to become star wars the missile shield
for defending the United States director
William Carroll’s dark side of the moon
purports to tell the true story of the
1969 Apollo 11 moon landing you know the
deal that the whole thing was all faked
by director Stanley Kubrick at the
request of the CIA NASA’s decision to
lend Kubrick this legendary lens was the
culmination of a story that had begun 15
years before Carell tricked many people
including Kubrick’s Widow and astronaut
Buzz Aldrin into participating in his
mockumentary they became very aware how
important the visual spectacle spectacle
is going to be the result is dark style
film so skillfully done many conspiracy
theorists view it as a serious expose of
NASA’s duplicity they decided that the
space race had to be turned into a pure
Hollywood product to show so they came
to see us with with one goal it had to
be absolutely amazing
Hollywood could do it we could create
the dream all of Hollywood stopped
working on other projects just for this
I mean it was never seen before
number nine incident at Loch Ness this
whole thing about Loch Ness is more or
less a figment of our fantasy burner
Hertzog and Zak Penn collaborated on
this film-within-a-film mockumentary
connect me to the Scottish coast guard
Bob a Loch Ness I don’t know the number
Hertzog is supposedly filming a
documentary on the Loch Ness monster
Penn is an unscrupulous Hollywood
producer who creates a fake Nessie to
add drama to the proceedings start doing
your narration as soon as it goes in the
water okay except then the real Nessie
shows up
maybe incident at Loch Ness is
fascinating fun that examines the whole
concept of reality all as one big prank
that’s pathetic you shoot this shot or
I’m gonna shoot you okay I had heard the
stories about Kinski and about you know
Herzog directing Kinski with a gun
pointed at him and you know I just
thought the gun was there and you know I
wasn’t planning on shooting him number
eight it’s all gone Pete Tong he’s on a
different level now it’s how he listens
to records how he plays the records and
I think it’s very special
because no other DJ can do that this
Canadian mockumentary looks at Frankie
Wilde an incredibly successful DJ who’s
achieved wealth and fame the problem
he’s going deaf because he’s constantly
surrounded by loud music and drugs
Frankie’s problem is actually quite a
common problem amongst DJs it’s an
occupational hazard they work in the
clubs and the knowledge just takes its
toll
it’s all gone Pete Tong has some amazing
sequences particularly those in which
wild hallucinates about a giant badger
who represents his drug addiction an
emotional journey that’s both funny and
frustrating it’s an exciting comeback
story with a fake DJ at its core we got
these are the facts Frank these are the
facts Frank we can’t change them you are
deaf man you are a deaf man number seven
a mighty wind there had been abuse in my
family but it was mostly musical in
nature my father used to lock me away in
a room with nothing but the Percy Faith
recording of BIM BAM Bom and then send
me to bed with nothing but desert
Christopher Guest has made a career of
mockumentary
and a mighty win is one of his funniest
and surprisingly touching as well
just always kept you wanting to get
there to understand him which was
impossible in the film three long
disbanded folk groups reunite for a
special reunion concert well there’s a
puppy in the parlour Rena skillet on the
stove and a smelly old vachetta Neville
poking fun at a wide range of subjects
from folk music to the 1960s to show
business a mighty wind is a great
showcase for some of the most talented
improvisational actors in film I got an
idea a very literate reference I thought
you’re familiar with a book about a
pirate captain his name was Moby Dick he
was chasing us some big whale and he had
a catchphrase Eidos yell out there she
blows
so I thought if you could do that we’d
have some other states drench the whole
group with water number six
Man Bites Dog was really shuanzhu Nestor
no no no go back go haha dr. Halsey
sauce Asti Konoha Curie Belgium’s Man
Bites Dog is an extremely dark comedy
that falls a serial killer on his spree
of death and mayhem management to me the
listed gorilla
idealist Ellicott you are Rahab dildo
sentential Pascagoula just a work
account eg in national Accord oh no it’s
a good Friday night well yellow yellow
second aperitif us the fitting of its
subject matter Man Bites Dog is
graphically violent and the fact that
the killer is presented as witty and
charismatic and that the fictional film
crew becomes drawn into his world
offends many oh such a thing but it is
Oh again Oh saucer don’t bunny dude I
could all the money fig cheese cash
ready save it on the Cebu quadri the way
oho
but Man Bites Dog also makes serious
thoughtful points about celebrity and
humanity in the modern world through its
mockumentary style move unless I mean
clean soos condottieri I mean uh then
you come on get y’all gonna kill you got
you so fuckin copied up you say good
shot in two up one number five waiting
for Guffman it’s a tall tale that grows
taller with each passing year it’s the
story of blade director Christopher
Guest place Corky st. Clair a community
theater director in Blaine Missouri st.
Clair is engaged to create a production
in honor of the small town
sesquicentennial and the whole cast
becomes excited when a Broadway producer
announces his intent to see the show
they are the mysterious said in the
night air what what kind of sense what
was this mysterious scent it was the
scent of salt water filled with odd
characters and outlandishly quirky humor
Guffman lovingly captures the egoism and
exaggerated drama of amateur theatricals
while also paralleling Samuel Beckett’s
play Waiting for Godot in fact you know
there’s an old saying in Missouri that
if you don’t like the weather just wait
five minutes in Blaine I honestly
believe with hard work we can we can get
that down to three or four minutes
number four
fubar make it better turn up the good
turned on the sock aging stoners get the
mockumentary treatment in fubar oh they
like
to play some of the the worst of the
band which was at a dead leopard or sick
cougar or some of those a Canadian film
shot digitally on a very very low budget
to mulleted head-banging best friends
are chosen as the subjects for a
documentary about the common man ever
since I quit smoking
I just been coughing up the weirdest
shit between the beer-chugging sequences
or the trips to the doctor to battle
testicular cancer
this mockumentary is an unexpected
emotional rollercoaster but Terry you
just you know he treats me just like old
dinner you know basically what I want to
do is just get back on the saddle so to
speak and start jamming again touching
on themes of friendship loyalty maturity
and rocking out
fubar is both raucous Lee funny and at
times tender too Farrell the Pearl
number three Best in Show I’m sorry I’m
sorry you had to see that
Petrus can you look at us come on honey
mommy and daddy are over here the world
of pompous dog contests gets the
Christopher Guest treatment in Best in
Show which follows five canine entrants
and their owners at the Mayflower Kennel
Club dog show the energy that this
building will exude will be phenomenal
with winners and losers
although no one loses we don’t like to
say that but let’s face it some people
have a long drive home with many of
guests perennial favorite actors filling
the roles this mockumentary earned high
praise from critics excuse me we met at
Starbucks not at the same Starbucks
where we saw each other at different
Starbucks across the street from each
other from a hyper-competitive yuppie
couple to a small-town store owner with
a secret yen to be a ventriloquist on
the best one of years of fame the dock
owners are a mixed lot and they make for
some genuinely hilarious moments just
checking out the dogs testicular area to
make sure to make sure that that
everything is intact hate to go out on a
date with judge edy Franklin never judge
me that’d be no fun number two
Borat cultural learnings of America for
make benefit glorious nation of
Kazakhstan
yes abash I’m I never bought up I like
it you I like sex
it’s nice Sacha Baron Cohen’s unique
style of gorilla mockumentary making
burst onto the big screen with Borat it
was so well received he continued the
style in 2009’s Bruno but Borat is the
more successfully realized there’s some
showers up there took that out on live
pinpoint Doppler 16 radar this morning
take any they’re very nice yeah oh but
telling them we’re on here right now
doing the weather what’s your name
Cowen’s title character is a journalist
from Kazakhstan on a tour of the United
States which results in significant
culture shock and silliness so a not
joke was I would say that suit is black
not visa suit is not black no no not has
to be the end okay okay
this suit is black nut many of the
interactions are with real people who
believe Cohen was the character he
portrayed and this approach leads to
some unexpectedly honest reactions for
better or worse my name of marat safin
nice to meet yo get the fuck out here
before a cute job oh no okay okay what
the world wonder okay sorry
before we reveal our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions you become the
epitome of a king I made it here despite
the efforts of a few so now it’s time to
simply save Q that’s right in the
company of a Chinese person he begins to
develop
oriental features by now word has gotten
out to the press and the public
thirsting for thrills and novelty is
immediately captivated it wasn’t until
the next day that um Matthew was
reviewing the the footage that there was
an image of Alice
like a fix alone from a Midwestern S&L
he puts the money in a quick drying it
well takes a lost pets crosswalks to the
corner store pulls a knife Walter’s wife
can’t take it anymore
number one this is spinal tap
Rob Reiner is fictional documentary
this is spinal tap was not the first
mockumentary but it laid the groundwork
for all that came after it good drama
right look good drama yeah good yeah
fine well see him he died he died in a
bizarre gardening accident the film
follows the fictitious heavy metal band
spinal tap on a problem plagued US tour
from its vision of a teeny-tiny
Stonehenge set to an app that memorably
goes to 11 does that mean it’s louder is
it any louder well it’s one louder isn’t
it
this is spinal tap is comic brilliance
one why don’t you just make ten louder
and make ten be the top number and make
that a little louder these cards two
eleven so much so that the lead actors
have continued to reunite the band
periodically for some memorable concerts
and recordings
do you agree with our choices what other
outrageous mockumentary should we have
added to this list what other thing can
you switch off the television because I
made a fox at nine months of verifying
mr. Magorium’s wonder Emporium form or
in throttling top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com with its cute little
derriere yes God loves our terrier
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