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Docudrama
//ˈdɒkjʊˌdɹɑːmə// noun
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Noun
- 1 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. countable, uncountable
"In other words, docudrama covers an amazing variety of dramatic forms, bound together by two things. They are all based on or inspired by reality, by the lives of real people, or by events that have happened in the recent or not too distant past. Furthermore, they would seem to have a higher responsibility to accuracy and to truth than does fiction."
- 2 a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event wordnet
Etymology
Blend of documentary + drama.
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