Documentary film
A documentary film is a nonfiction, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". The American author and media analyst Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries".
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- nounA film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
- adjectiveOf, related to, or based on documents.
- adjectiveWhich serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
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