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  • noun Plural form of docudrama.

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Examples

  • He drew his share of criticism: it was sometimes suggested that his documentaries were not sufficiently probing, that his so-called docudramas took too many liberties with the facts, that he was more showman than historian.

    NYT > Home Page By RICHARD SEVERO 2010

  • Vast as the Roosevelt literature is, biography nowadays must also compete with theater, movies, television plays, documentaries, and "docudramas," though not yet an opera.

    A Revolutionary President Baker, Russell 2009

  • Now is not the time for anyone to be making "docudramas" about what lead up to the 9/11 attack.

    Steven G. Brant: PBS Newshour on "The Path to 9/11": A Bad Idea From The Start 2008

  • All "docudramas" dramatize and even fictionalize part of what they depict, but it is hard to imagine a more inappropriate venue for fictionalizing events than a film which purports to document the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks and assign blame for those attacks.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • All "docudramas" dramatize and even fictionalize part of what they depict, but it is hard to imagine a more inappropriate venue for fictionalizing events than a film which purports to document the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks and assign blame for those attacks.

    Republicans and Islamic terrorism during the Clinton presidency Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • Vast as the Roosevelt literature is, biography nowadays must also compete with theater, movies, television plays, documentaries, and "docudramas," though not yet an opera.

    The New York Review of Books 2009

  • It is not just the heavy-handed suppression of certain news stories from our newspapers or the blatant propagandizing of history-distorting TV "docudramas" which characterizes the opinion-manipulating techniques of the media masters.

    The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008

  • Sagansky, Bloomberg, and Littlefield pick the programs their networks will broadcast: the game shows, the interview shows, the situation comedies, the historical "docudramas," the family series, the adventure series, the specials.

    The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008

  • 'docudramas' that characterizes the opinion-manipulating techniques of the media masters.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED dragline190d 2009

  • Playwright Goodchild has had a long career as a producer of science documentaries, docudramas and plays at the BBC.

    'American Scrapbook' draws on Kennedy family's favorite poems Jane Horwitz 2011

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