This thesis examines Welsh stereotypes and tropes on film. Welsh people are as diverse andcomplex as the Welsh countryside; however, this is not expressed in films that showcaseWelsh characters. This is explored using Plato’s allegory of the cave as a basis for itsmethod. Plato stated that if three prisoners would be kept within a cave for their entire liveswith the only stimulation being shadows projected on a wall, that then their reality would bebased on the assumption that those shadows were real. In our real world, this study suggeststhat those shadows represent stereotypes, and that if three people were locked in a cinemawith only films to view for an understanding of the Welsh people, their view would beextremely different from reality. This is precisely the question asked by this thesis.In Plato’s allegory, one of the prisoners is eventually released into the real world, atfirst this scares and shocks the prisoner, however, over time the prisoner adapts and realizesthat the shadows they had viewed within the cave were fiction. What the practice element ofthis thesis does is to juxtapose the real, in the form of a documentary, with the false, in theform of a B-Movie. Documentary is widely considered as a representation of reality, theactual, historical world. The B-Movie represents a fictitious world, a world made almostentirely on a Hollywood sound stage. The dichotomy between these genres allows thisresearch to highlight the absurdity of Welsh stereotypes. However, since documentary is insome cases as much of a fiction as scripted fiction films, the documentary is, in fact,presented as a mockumentary. This thesis is practice-based inquiry that uses serendipity as amethodology in order to make discoveries. The overall goal is to reveal how simplisticstereotypes and tropes in cinema productions obscure reality and real life characters.However, as this is research includes a reliance on serendipitous theory, the eventualoutcomes are potentially unknown from the outset. This work aimed to juxtapose the factand fiction with the dichotomy between B-Movie and Documentary with the goal of dealingwith the larger issues of representation using the Welsh as a microcosmic representation ofany stereotyped group. What will be shown in the conclusion is that the practice element ofthe thesis is great than the some of it’s parts, and rather than merely displaying fact vs fictionthe film becomes indefinable performative documentary.