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documentary
has definitions from the fields of film,performing arts
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[ noun ] (film,performing arts) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
Synonyms Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)There seems to be an unfortunate assumption that an hour of Chicago style jazz in prime evening time , for_example , could not be justified without the trimmings of a portentous documentary . Perhaps Special Projects necessarily thinks along documentary lines . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries , art films , and travelogues , despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama , the movies are at_heart a form of fiction , like the play , the novel , or the short_story . Thus such great American documentaries as The_River and The_Plow_That_Broke_the_Plains were composed as visual stories rather_than as illustrated lectures . |
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[ adjective ] relating to or consisting of or derived from documents
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