documentary film

1. 1.

   a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event

   Synonymsdocumentarydocudramainfotainment

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Questions about documentary film

What does documentary film mean?

documentary film means "a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event".

What is another word for documentary film?

Close synonyms include documentary, docudrama, infotainment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is documentary film a common word?

documentary film is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.