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title: "Documentary B-roll AI video style | Reclip.Me"
description: "Documentary B-roll is an AI video style: Observational B-roll look with a calm narrator. See a real short made in it, then make your own from an idea, a link or a podcast episode."
canonical: https://reclip.me/styles/broll-documentary
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# Documentary B-roll AI video style

Documentary B-roll is an AI video style: Observational B-roll look with a calm narrator. See a real short made in it, then make your own from an idea, a link or a podcast episode.

Documentary B-roll belongs to the Source-backed formats family, a filmed, live-action treatment. The same script can be rendered in any look, so the style changes how a short feels, not what it says.

## Documentary B-roll examples

Real renders from the public gallery, most watched first.

- [Billionaires, public roads and the ladder for the next person](https://reclip.me/watch/billionaires-public-roads-and-the-ladder-for-the-next-person) (28 seconds, 1 view)

[Every public Documentary B-roll video](https://reclip.me/breakthrough-media?style=broll_documentary)

## Make a Documentary B-roll short

1. [Open the composer with Documentary B-roll selected](https://reclip.me/create?style=broll_documentary) and describe an idea, or paste a link or a PDF.
2. Read the script it writes and change what you like.
3. Render it: 1 credit per 5 seconds, and the first 5-second short is free ([plans and credits](https://reclip.me/pricing)).

You can also start [from a podcast episode](https://reclip.me/podcast-shorts), [from your own YouTube videos](https://reclip.me/shorts) or [from an X post](https://reclip.me/x-shorts).

## More Source-backed formats styles

- [3D Explainer](https://reclip.me/styles/explainer-3d): The idea staged in 3D: objects, light and a moving camera
- [Animated Explainer](https://reclip.me/styles/explainer-animation): Motion-graphics metaphors, diagrams and cut-outs
- [Explainer Overlay](https://reclip.me/styles/explainer-overlay): B-roll look with animated callouts and arrows
- [Office Sketch](https://reclip.me/styles/office-sketch): Workplace comedy sketch with original characters
- [Illustrative Footage](https://reclip.me/styles/illustrative-footage): Cinematic concept shot of the idea itself

[All 138 styles](https://reclip.me/styles)