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Definition of Docudrama
1. Noun. A film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event.
Generic synonyms: Film, Flick, Motion Picture, Motion-picture Show, Movie, Moving Picture, Moving-picture Show, Pic, Picture, Picture Show
Derivative terms: Document, Documentary
Definition of Docudrama
1. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Docudrama
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Docudrama
Literary usage of Docudrama
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Content Area Reading: A Heuristic Approach by Anthony & Ula Manzo (1990)
"A recent docudrama on PBS television made this clearer than any text could and
made a further point in support of reiteration. ..."
2. The Drug Connection in U. S.-Mexican Relations edited by Guadalupe Gonzalez, Marta Tienda (1996)
"And please spare us the constant statistical docudrama in defense of particular
departments and agencies. Who, for example, really believes that only some ..."
3. Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life by Laitman, Michael (2006)
"In the docudrama, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Dr. John Hagelin told of an experiment
in mass meditation carried out in Washington, DC. ..."
4. A Yearbook of Holidays & Observances: A Multicultural Perspective of by Iva A. Smith, Aurora Ramirez-Krodel (1998)
"... Mohawk Indians in New York state, Polish Americans in Brooklyn, ...a docudrama
on black families in America, a dramatic film on Chinese women, ..."
5. Destruction of a Planet: Zionism Is Racism by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1991)
"The same one-two “Diary”-”Holocaust” with at least one new docudrama is laid on
you annually now--or even more often as the hype is necessary to put down ..."
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