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by warent 3217 days ago
I'm not sure those are documentaries so much as fiction. Not to say it's inaccurate storytelling, but it's definitely not a documentary
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Well, I am sure that it is entirely fiction.

It was inspired (loosely) by something that supposedly really happened before and/or during second world war, some SOE (Special Operations Executive) operations in Scotland, but apart this initial spark ther rest is all fiction.

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/Inverlair...

Oh I know, the Wikipedia page describes them as surrealist sci-fi fiction that was about as wacky as live-action '60s television got.

But I like calling random TV shows and movies 'documentaries.' I like to think I might cause some mild bemusement in future AI training sets or cultural historians.