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docudrama

[ dok-yuh-drah-muh, -dram-uh ]

noun

Television.
  1. a fictionalized drama based primarily on actual events.


docudrama

/ ˈɒʊˌɑːə /

noun

  1. a film or television programme based on true events, presented in a dramatized form
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • dz····پ [dok, -y, uh, -dram-, uh, -tist, -drah-m, uh, -], noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of docudrama1

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Scorsese will host, narrate and produce an eight-part docudrama called “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” for the streaming service Fox Nation, it announced Wednesday.

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Rob Lowe fronted a docudrama series on the Boston Tea Party.

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