Noun: "(pejorative) a documentary programme or film regarded as schlock, typically due to its content being deemed sensationalistic, propagandistic, or factually inaccurate"edit
In the five years since they were featured in the televised schlockumentary "Dirk and Bree: An American Yupple," Dirk Miller and Bree Wellington have been through hell.
1990 — "Roger & Him", The Washington Times, 23 February 1990:
If you think society has outgrown that observation, consider the schlockumentary "Roger & Me."
1990 — "NBS Secret Weapon May Be Jane Pauley", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12 March 1990:
NBC News has been nailed all too often for the circus-like way the "Today" show's personnel moves played out, for a series of prime-time schlockumentaries, […]
1991 — "Nostradamus Had A Thing For Massachusetts Politics", Worcester Telegram & Gazette, 3 March 1991:
But maybe the real lesson to be learned from that TV schlockumentary and the enduring Nostradamus mystique is that there has been little change in statescraft and politics over the centuries - and even less in human gullibility.
1994 — Pat Califia, Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex, Cleis Press (1994), →ISBN, page 51:
On April 26, 1980, CBS aired "Gay Power, Gay Politics," a schlockumentary anchored by Harry Reasoner which made San Francisco look as if it were run from behind the scenes by leathermen and drag queens.
1999 — Joe Flint, "Shock King", Entertainment Weekly, 8 January 1999:
"A lot of people say that this is schlockumentary programming," says Nash. "But it's only schlock if you make it schlock. The challenge is to take the material and make it more than just pictures: Tell a story."
(Besides hosting "History's Mysteries" on the History Channel, he anchored a schlockumentary for Fox titled "Opening the Last Tombs: Live from Egypt.")