But it also lays the documentary open to the charges that dog every historical re-creation: it's specious, and it looks like a school play.
After two weeks gluing plastic bits onto a model of the Titanic, I decided to stage a historical re-creation?
An historical re-creation passing as the real thing.
Unimaginative directors might have made fun of "Actéon" or else weighted it down with historical re-creation.
Nowhere is the Met's effort at the historical re-creation of the 19th century more evocative than in this grand gallery.
But there are two problems with it as a historical re-creation of late-Romantic Beethoven style.
In addition to historical re-creation, Grant is a fan of pastries, and violent video games.
That's why they'd given up the historical re-creation.
As historical re-creation or biography, these films were interesting, as cinema they were nowhere.
But for a historical re-creation of the social life and atmosphere of a community, you can't find anything like what Harris left.