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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents.
- adjective Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film.
- noun A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Educational; instructional.
- Pertaining to or derived from documents; consisting in documents.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, related to, or based on
documents . - adjective which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
- adjective of a film presented
objectively without the insertion offictional matter. - noun A film,
TV program, publication etc. which presents asocial ,political ,scientific orhistorical subject in afactual orinformative manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation
- adjective relating to or consisting of or derived from documents
- noun a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
Etymologies
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Examples
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Brother in documentary is a film about the two brothers most of us have not seen.
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Brother in documentary is a film about the two brothers most of us have not seen.
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AL-JUBEIR: Well, let's be careful with the term documentary here.
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Watching the documentary is at times painful to watch.
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Watching the documentary is at times painful to watch.
Hulu – Zombie Girl – Watch the full feature film now. « Monster Scifi Show Blog 2009
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As NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports, the documentary is also about what it's like to be a parent of someone with an intellectual disability.
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But I think the documentary is accurate as portraying the neoconservatives as playing a key role in getting the evangelical message ensconced into he daily lexicon.
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Watching the documentary is at times painful to watch.
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One thing that unites the four “characters” (Batman, Hulk, Superman and, of course, Wonder Woman) in the documentary is their desire to pursue acting as a full-time career.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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The most fascinating aspect of the documentary is the legal battle inside the courtroom months before Polanski boarded the plane out of the US.
Cannes Film Festival Report and Reviews - Part Deux « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Words with the same meaning
- 3-D
- Cinemascope
- Cinerama
- Technicolor
- Western
- absolute
- actual
- adducible
- admissible
- animated cartoon
- archival
- ascertained
- attestative
- attested
- attestive
- authentic
- authenticated
- based on
- black-and-white film
- cartoon
- categorically true
- certain
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- chiller
- cinema
- circumstantial
- color film
- conclusive
- confirmed
- convincing
- corroborated
- creepie
- cumulative
- damning
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- determinative
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- documental
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- ex parte
- eye-witness
- factual
- feature
- film
- final
- firsthand
- flick
- flicker
- founded on
- grounded on
- hearsay
- historical
- horror picture
- horse opera
- implicit
- incontrovertible
- indicative
- indisputable
- irrefutable
- irresistible
- material
- motion picture
- motion-picture show
- movie
- moving picture
- necrological
- newsreel
- not in error
- nudie
- nuncupative
- obituary
- objectively true
- overwhelming
- photodrama
- photoplay
- picture
- picture show
- pornographic film
- presumptive
- preview
- probative
- proved
- real
- reliable
- short
- significant
- silent
- silent film
- skin flick
- sneak preview
- spaghetti Western
- substantiated
- suggestive
- sure
- sure-enough
- symptomatic
- talkie
- talking picture
- telling
- testimonial
- thriller
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- true
- true as gospel
- truthful
- unconfuted
- undenied
- underground film
- undoubted
- unerroneous
- unfallacious
- unfalse
- unmistaken
- unquestionable
- unrefuted
- valid
- validated
- veracious
- verified
- veritable
- weighty
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