docudrama
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Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event".
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Vinony files it under Docudramas, Documentary film genres and Drama genres.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
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- documentary
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- Category:Docudramas
- different from
- docufiction
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Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event".
Docudramas typically strive to adhere to known historical facts, while allowing some degree of dramatic license in peripheral details, such as when there are gaps in the historical record. Dialogue may, or may not, include the actual words of real-life people, as recorded in historical documents. Docudrama producers sometimes choose to film their reconstructed events in the actual locations in which the historical events occurred.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “docudrama” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.