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
Kristen Tauer, WWD, 23 Jan. 2025
The documentary features a rich tech guy, Bryan Johnson, whose mission in life is to live forever.
—Brett Owens, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Jenelle Riley, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
Amazon Studios agreed to pay Melania Trump millions of dollars for a documentary project about her, according to Puck News.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
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Noun
This year’s documentaries span politics, health care, gender issues, the arts, and more.
—Kristen Tauer, WWD, 23 Jan. 2025
The documentary features a rich tech guy, Bryan Johnson, whose mission in life is to live forever.
—Brett Owens, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
It’s also been nominated at the Critics’ Choice Awards and International Documentary Association Awards and is shortlisted for the Academy Award for best documentary feature film.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
Amazon Studios agreed to pay Melania Trump millions of dollars for a documentary project about her, according to Puck News.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for documentary
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Directed with rigorous control, Sachs’ audacious experiment finds an idiosyncratic spot between Warhol’s static people-sitting-around-talking movies and more structured pieces like Louis Malle’s My Dinner With Andre or the recent docudrama Reality, assembled from FBI transcripts.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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Better Man—a fantasy docudrama biopic about British pop star Robbie Williams—is new in theaters.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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While that was up 16.2% from a year earlier, the inventory remained well below the annual historical average of about 1.98 million, according to data going back to 1999.—
ALEX VEIGA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
25 Jan. 2025
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Folsom Lake is at 37 percent capacity, which is 84 percent of its historical average.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Terms & Conditions, the first feature from video artist Joseph, was complicated this morning after it was announced that Participant had pulled the project from a debut slot at Sundance.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
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Gas station amenities Lounge The #1 feature for a station is reliability.—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Yi had communicated with the baby’s mother the day before and on the same day that the infant ingested a deadly amount of the drug, according to a factual proffer in the case, the facts agreed on by the defense and prosecutors.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Jan. 2025
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The New York Times defended its reporting, stating it was based on thousands of original documents and adhered to journalistic standards, with no factual errors identified by Baldoni or his team.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Shot in under two weeks, with little to no rehearsal time, the film thrives on the strength of its cast—particularly Liang, who gives a tremendous performance as the emotionally bereft Chloe.—
Elissa Suh,
Vogue,
21 Jan. 2025
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The song’s current success may be tied to its use in the film Babygirl, where it’s prominently featured during a particularly raunchy scene.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Focus Features finally let the cat—make that bat—out of the bag on Monday, though, when the studio posted a 1-minute, 7-second video featurette on Count Orlok on its official Nosferatu X account.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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The featurette was introduced by Reeves and John Wick director Chad Stahelski in a pre-recorded message.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
8 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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On the one side stood religious fundamentalism with its insistence on a literal reading of scripture and submission to institutional authority; on the other stood scientific naturalism with its insistence that only empirical methods were valid routes to knowledge.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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They were not intended to be literal interpretations of the monuments concerned.—
Alex Wynne,
WWD,
29 Jan. 2025
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Read more: The Human Cost of Binge-Watching True Crime Series Shackleton also steps back to reveal how his movie might have adhered to the tropes of the true crime genre.—
Esther Zuckerman,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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There are lots of great opportunities to dine; there are lots of awesome spaces on the boat; there’s shopping, there’s movies.—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Documentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/documentary. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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