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

Other Word Forms

• docudramatist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of docudrama¹

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

Example Sentences

Jessi adds the docudrama shows how "we are all normal and everyday girls, not people wearing bonnets and churning butter like you might think".

From BBC

A recently launched monthly subscription service now offers full-range access to a catalog that includes Broadway titles, world classics and docudramas and social justice plays.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s certainly well beyond the power of any docudrama to take it in whole, and the strength of FX’s “Say Nothing” — a nine-episode historical drama now streaming on Hulu — is that it doesn’t try to.

From Los Angeles Times

The moment of reckoning was a long time in the making, but it was turbocharged by a four-part television docudrama that aired earlier this year.

From Seattle Times

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is set to direct, host, and produce a new religious docudrama series after signing a deal with Fox Nation, the streaming service headed by Fox News Media.

From Salon

Related Words

• broadcast 
• feature 
• film 
• narrative