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DOCUMENTARY FILM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does documentary film mean?
• DOCUMENTARY FILM (noun)
The noun DOCUMENTARY FILM has 1 sense:
1. a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
Familiarity information: DOCUMENTARY FILM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
docudrama; documentary; documentary film; infotainment
Hypernyms ("documentary film" is a kind of...):
film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; 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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