Dark Side of the Moon is a French mockumentary by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune.

When last seen, in the mockumentary Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher, Fletch was landlord of a pub in Muswell Hill, alongside his second wife, Gloria ( an old flame briefly mentioned in Porridge ).

The unfinished 1982 David Tomblin mockumentary Return of the Ewok showed them in Jabba's palace, and they briefly appeared in an October 1985 episode of the animated series Star Wars: Droids titled " The Lost Prince ," in which they performed in Doodnik's Café on the mining planet of Tyne's Horky.

These decorative umlauts have been parodied in film and fiction ; in the mockumentary film This Is Spın ̈ al Tap ( spelled with an umlaut mark over the n and a dotless i ), fictional rocker David St. Hubbins ( Michael McKean ) says, " It's like a pair of eyes.

" In the 2000 mockumentary Best in Show, Michael McKean's character sings a verse of this song to his dog over the phone, saying it is the dog's favorite song.

Hard Core Logo is a 1996 Canadian mockumentary adapted by Noel Baker from the novel of the same name by author Michael Turner.

* Yacht Rock — a mockumentary series from J. D. Ryznar, Hunter D. Stair and Lane Farnham, detailing fictional accounts of the lives of real " smooth music " musicians, particularly Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald.

FUBAR is a 2002 mockumentary film, directed by Michael Dowse, based on the lives of two lifelong friends and head-bangers living out their lives, constantly drinking beer.

A false document should not be confused with a mockumentary, which is a fictional film presented in the manner of a documentary.

A dramatic mockumentary ( sometimes referred to as docufiction ) should not be confused with docudrama, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events.

A Hard Day's Night ( 1964 ), written by Alun Owen, and purporting to describe a couple of days in the lives of The Beatles, was possibly the first feature film that could be characterized as a " mockumentary ".

Early use of the mockumentary format in television comedy may be seen in several sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 – 1974 ), such as " Hell's Grannies ", " Piranha Brothers ", and " The Funniest Joke in the World ".

When it was revealed to be a mockumentary, director Peter Jackson received much abuse for tricking the nation.

In 2010, a mockumentary entitled Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison ?, featuring fabricated found footage audio tapes of a voice claiming to be Harrison explaining that the rumour was true, was released on video.

In the mockumentary " Life Beyond The Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher ", his real name is revealed as being Timothy Underwood, although in Just Desserts he seems to be addressed by a warden as Lewis.

This film is number 87 on Bravo's " 100 Funniest Movies ," and is considered, along with The Groove Tube, to be one of the groundbreaking films of the entire spoof and mockumentary genres of filmmaking.

This could be a reference to the mockumentary The Canadian Conspiracy, which details how the Canadian government is subverting the United States by taking over its media, and came out in 1985, one year before the setting of the game.

In Get Ready to be Boyzvoiced, a mockumentary about their lives, first released in 2000, they have to overcome a scandal involving lip-synching over recordings made by session musicians, which results in their being dropped by their record company — reminiscent of the real-life incident involving Milli Vanilli.

The show is a mockumentary, purporting to be a lost Canadian public affairs series of the mid-1960s, hosted by the fictional Jimmy MacDonald ( Richard Waugh ) with additional commentary ( from a woman's point of view ) by Marg Margison ( Teresa Pavlinek ).

The mockumentary achieves this by using interviews by those who " know " him, such as: George Lucas, Ewan McGregor, Francis Ford Coppola, Richard Dreyfuss ( who believes Artoo to be " a schmuck "), Samuel L. Jackson, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Bitsie Tulloch and more.

Eventually, Bluestein developed the popular alter-ego of Madge Weinstein to be featured in a Spinal Tap-esque mockumentary about feminist riot grrrls and their lesbian Jewish manager.

On 2 March 1978, McGough appeared in All You Need Is Cash, a mockumentary detailing the career of a Beatles-like group called The Rutles ; McGough's introduction takes so long that he is only asked one question (" Did you know the Rutles?

The 2000 comedy Best in Show, made by some of the same actors from This is Spinal Tap, was also done as a mockumentary, this time of various contestants at a fictional dog show.

The 2003 mockumentary A Mighty Wind was made by most of the same people behind This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show and was also done as a documentary of three 1960s folk bands doing a reunion concert.

This Is Spinal Tap and other mockumentary films of director Christopher Guest are created with a mix of scripted and unscripted material and Blue in the Face is a 1995 comedy directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster created in part by the improvisations filmed during the production of their movie Smoke.

In 1978, the Rutles ' mockumentary film All You Need Is Cash, a collaboration between Python members and Saturday Night Live, was aired on NBC television, as written by Idle, with music by Innes.

All You Need is Cash, a 1978 American-British mockumentary film written and directed by Eric Idle, featured the satirical history of the The Beatles | Beatles parody " The Rutles ".

Zelig was a 1983 American mockumentary film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Allen and Mia Farrow.

* The Nona Tapes, a 1995 mockumentary by the grunge band Alice in Chains

Bluto is referenced in BBC mockumentary The Office as a nickname for David Brent given to him by some of his colleagues, to which he takes offence.

Lear is unofficially credited with giving Rob Reiner, son of Carl Reiner ( and a star of All in the Family ) his start as a director by financing the mockumentary This is Spinal Tap.

He also appeared in the HBO mockumentary The Canadian Conspiracy, about the supposed subversion of the United States by Canadian-born media personalities.

The term was used by Bill Drake in the 1969 History of Rock & Roll radio broadcast, and by Rob Reiner in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

People Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary ( or mockumentary ) written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer.

The Guardian reports Trinny and Susannah are in a new online series-produced by t5m Studios-" What Trinny and Susannah Did Next is a mockumentary – an elaborately knowing spoof – part Alan Partridge, part The Office, part The Thick of It.

The Guardian reports Trinny and Susannah are in a new online series-produced by t5m Studios-" What Trinny and Susannah Did Next is a mockumentary – an elaborately knowing spoof – part Alan Partridge, part The Office, part The Thick of It.

Written by Allen and Mickey Rose, the film is a mockumentary chronicling the life of Virgil Starkwell, an inept bank robber.

* The biggest hit song by the band Boyzvoice in the Norwegian mockumentary Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced is We Are the Playmo-men, in which the band members sing about being Playmobil men.

Nothing So Strange is a 2002 American mockumentary, written, produced and directed by Brian Flemming in the style of an " independent documentary ", centering on the fictional assassination of former Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on December 2, 1999.

The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle ( 1980 ) is a mockumentary film directed by Julien Temple and produced by Don Boyd and Jeremy Thomas about the British punk rock band Sex Pistols.

The film was a thirty-minute mockumentary shot on video called The Dirk Diggler Story ( 1988 ), about a well-endowed male porn star ( inspired by John Holmes, who also served as a major inspiration for Boogie Nights ).