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docudrama

[ dok-yuh-drah-muh, -dram-uh ]

noun

, Television.
  1. a fictionalized drama based primarily on actual events.


docudrama

/ ˈdɒkjʊˌdrɑːmə /

noun

  1. a film or television programme based on true events, presented in a dramatized form
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • doc·u·dram·a·tist [dok, -y, uh, -dram-, uh, -tist, -drah-m, uh, -], noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of docudrama1

First recorded in 1960–65; docu(mentary) + drama
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Example Sentences

You could argue that at least the new wave of docudramas is educating viewers about current events and recent history.

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Such blurring of fact and fiction is endemic on TV these days, thanks to a spike in the production of docudramas, many of which center on larger-than-life newsmakers.

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Featured playwrights in the docudrama include, among others, Helen Hayes Award winner Dane Figueroa Edidi, Farah Lawal Harris, Teshonne Nicole Powell, and Karen Zacarías.

Over the phone, she tells me how NYC Prep was sold to her and her similarly privileged peers as a docudrama.

Perhaps because it has been covered so exhaustively, even the 9/11 chapter seems like a docudrama we've already watched.

Sarah Palin and reality-TV titan Mark Burnett are about to collaborate on a “docudrama” about Alaska?

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