Schlockumentary

Alternative forms

• shlockumentary

Origin

schlockdocumentary.

Full definition of schlockumentary

Noun

1. (pejorative) A documentary programme or film regarded as schlock, typically due to its content being deemed sensationalistic, propagandistic, or factually inaccurate.
• 1999, Troy Patterson, "Celebrities: Caught on Camera", Entertainment Weekly, 5 March 1999:The narrator of this 53-minute schlockumentary insists that "the public's appetite for seeing their favorite stars caught off guard... is insatiable."