documentary film

Other forms: documentary films

Definitions of documentary film
  1. noun
    a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
    synonyms: docudrama, documentary, infotainment
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    type of:
    film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture, picture show
    a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
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