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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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
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Examples
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Democrats urge ABC to withdraw 9 / 11 movie because its classified as a docudrama based on the
Intellectual Poison 2008
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Despite what you may see in this weekend's ABC 'docudrama' - "The Road to 9/11", the attacks on September 11th happened on George W. Bush's watch!
More Lies - Bush Finally Comes Clean On Secret CIA Prisons 2006
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I was at first a bit put off by this puppeteering of some of the great thinkers of the 20th century, until I realized that if it had been a film-even a "docudrama" - it would have bothered me less.
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The reality is that we're not naive as viewers as to believe that what we see in a docudrama is the entire truth.
Danny Groner: Oscar Nominated Films: Does the Truth Matter? Danny Groner 2011
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The reality is that we're not naive as viewers as to believe that what we see in a docudrama is the entire truth.
Danny Groner: Oscar Nominated Films: Does the Truth Matter? Danny Groner 2011
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The reality is that we're not naive as viewers as to believe that what we see in a docudrama is the entire truth.
Danny Groner: Oscar Nominated Films: Does the Truth Matter? Danny Groner 2011
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Calling the docudrama, which is based on the Kean-Hamilton 9/11 Commission's report as well as other sources, "fiction," the Clintonites want it re-edited to tone down its criticism of the former president - or, better still, yanked entirely.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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At best, a docudrama is a dramatized i.e., not actual version of events meant to get people to watch.
Think Progress » ABC Planning Massive Free Distribution of 9/11 Docudrama 2006
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ABC so called docudrama is a shameless cheap attempt at shifting the blame from the evil Bush administration to the Democrates through Clinton.
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Please do no show this so-called docudrama, it is nothing but propaganda.
Think Progress » New ABC Docudrama Blames Clinton For 9/11, Praises Bush 2006
vendingmachine commented on the word docudrama
A fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events.
June 25, 2015