Docudrama

Definition: Docudrama

Docudrama

Noun

1. A film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event.

Specialty Definition: Docudrama

A Docudrama or Docu-Drama is a type of work (usually a movie or television show) that combines elements of Documentary and Drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing set pieces to take dramatic liberty with events.

Docudramas of note

Culloden (BBC, 1964)
"Roots"
"Brian's Song"
"Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure"
Three different Amy Fisher stories

TV series that utilize a docudrama style

"America's Most Wanted"
"The E! True Hollywood Stories"

See also: Mocumentary

Commercial Usage: Docudrama

Domain	Title
Books	El docudrama : fronteras de la ficciâon (reference) Leila, on vas? : docudrama en dos actes (reference) Making the Band: O-Town (Abc-TV Docudrama Series) (reference) Real Emotional Logic: Film and Television Docudrama As Persuasive Practice (reference) Steel City: A Docudrama in Three Acts (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Docudrama (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Docudrama

"Docudrama" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Docudrama" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Docudrama

Modern Translation: Docudrama

Language		Translations for "docudrama"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		dramatiseret dokumentarfilm (dramatized documentary). (various references)

Dutch		documentaire film (dramatized documentary), docudrama (dramatized documentary). (various references)

French		documentaire dramatisé (dramatized documentary), docudrame (dramatized documentary). (various references)

German		Dokumentationsdrama (dramatized documentary), Dokudrama (dramatized documentary). (various references)

Italian		documentario sceneggiato (dramatized documentary). (various references)

Pig Latin		ocudramaday

Spanish		docudrama (dramatized documentary). (various references)

Turkish		yarı belgesel oyun, yarı belgesel film. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Docudrama

Derivations
	Words beginning with "docudrama": docudramas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Docudrama" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dicurane, Tourama. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "Docudrama"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "docudrama" (pronounced dō'kudra"mu)
4	-r a" m u	grama.
3	-a" m u	gamma, panorama.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Anagrams: Docudrama

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-m-o-r-u"
	-3 letters: amadou, aoudad, caudad, maduro, maraud.
	-4 letters: amour, aroma, audad, carom, damar, douma, doura, drama, duroc, macro, mucor, mucro, mudra.
	-5 letters: arco, arum, aura, card, coda, coma, cord, corm, cram, crud, curd, dada, dado, dorm, doum, dour, dram, drum, duad, duma, dura, duro, maar, marc, maud, mora, mura, orad, orca, road, roam, rudd.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-d-m-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: docudramas.
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