Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A television or movie dramatization of events based on fact.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event.

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  • noun A type of drama (a film, a television show, or a play) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[docu(mentary) + drama.]

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Blend of documentary and drama

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  • A fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events.

    June 25, 2015