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Definition of docudrama
: a drama (as for television) dealing freely with historical events especially of a recent and controversial nature
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Examples of docudrama in a Sentence
They are making a docudrama about the controversial court case.
Recent Examples of docudrama from the Web
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For Lovato, the idea behind the behind-the-scenes docudrama was to connect more with the legions of young girls that are her fans.
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Shark By Brian Skerry Forget the suspense and gore of Jaws or the hyperbolic titillation of many television docudramas.
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Shark By Brian Skerry Forget the suspense and gore of Jaws or the hyperbolic titillation of many television docudramas.
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This narrative docudrama about the historic election of Carl B. Stokes, Jr. combines poetry, song, dance, and multimedia.
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Writer-director Robin Campillo’s deeply effective is half sober and surveying docudrama, half wrenching personal illness narrative.
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In February 2016, an ABC docudrama starred Richard Dreyfuss as Madoff and Blythe Danner as his ever-trusting, unwitting wife Ruth.
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Yet that was the aim of a new docudrama movie Amazon Adventure.
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Peter Berg’s docudrama, about the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon and the hunt for its perpetrators, is vigorous, sentimental, and unreflective.
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Origin and Etymology of docudrama
documentary + drama
DOCUDRAMA Defined for English Language Learners
docudrama
play
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Definition of docudrama for English Language Learners
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: a movie that is usually made for television and that tells a story about real events that have happened recently
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