as in docudrama
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a documentary film about the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
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Recent Examples of documentary
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
Stewart's involvement in the project, which is taking place in honor of America's 250th anniversary, will include garden plans and community programming, including a garden restoration documentary.
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Chiara Kim,
PEOPLE,
29 June 2026
Katie Houlis,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
There are so many people in the documentary space, looking at any and every story out there.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
16 June 2026
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Noun
Arizona’s voter registration form, by contrast, requires documentary proof of citizenship.
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Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
Stewart's involvement in the project, which is taking place in honor of America's 250th anniversary, will include garden plans and community programming, including a garden restoration documentary.
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Chiara Kim,
PEOPLE,
29 June 2026
Adjective
Further details about the documentary series, including a release date, have not yet been announced.
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Katie Houlis,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
There are so many people in the documentary space, looking at any and every story out there.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
16 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for documentary
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Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston, a three-part docudrama hosted by the Loki star that will premiere July 22 on the network at 9/8c and July 23 on Disney+ and Hulu.
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The docudrama drew large crowds in France last year despite criticism from some secular and Catholic sources.
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Co-founder and tour guide Hannah Michelle Brower says the tour will be a historical journey exploring passenger pigeons and the Lenape people, as well as looking at how the arrival of European colonizers accelerated commercial exploitation and ultimately contributed to the extinction of the bird.
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Building historical records Collecting tree ring data to study events like El Niño helps fill in the history before satellites were available, Trouet said.
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The company is selling highly customizable electric vehicles that come with few standard features, but plenty of optional add-ons.
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Stars from Rowling's Harry Potter feature films have also criticized her stances, including Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe.
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The prior Minnesota Anti-SLAPP law required that the court make certain pre-trial factual findings which was held to violate the right to a jury trial.
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Currently in pre-production and without a sales agent, the project carries strong environmental timeliness and a genuinely global geographic canvas that should attract factual commissioners.
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Aside from the fictional King Kong, who first appeared in a 1933 film atop the skyscraper, others in real life legally — and illegally — climbed the famous skyscraper.
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Now, a new crop of leaders has emerged, reflecting Silicon Valley’s vast influence over the film and and TV business, which has been upended by streaming and, now, artificial intelligence.
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Pee-Wee as Himself, the 2025 Emmy award winner for best documentary or nonfictional special, is also among the nominees.
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That delirious excess befits the essence of Lapid’s method, which is a fusion of fiction with indigestibly and irreducibly nonfictional elements.
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The film will feature an exclusive making-of featurette offering a glimpse behind the curtain.
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In the featurette, Springsteen, 76, recalls watching the movie with one of sisters for the first time.
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By the end of the debate, about 150 men dressed in Indigenous costumes, their faces smeared with soot, stormed to a nearby wharf and dumped a literal boatload of tea into the water.
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The season emphasizes emotional constriction and physical limits, not literal clock time.
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“Documentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/documentary. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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