docu-drama

A form of docudrama — A type of drama (a film, play, television show, etc.) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events.

Meanings

noundocu-drama (plural docu-dramas)

plural docu-dramas

  1. alternativeAlternative form of docudrama.

    A docu-drama entitled "Crisis in the Local Congregation" on extremism was presented by a group from the Fourth Avenue Methodist Church under the directorship of Mr. Martin Bard.

    1967, “Morning Session: January 18, 1967”, in Journal of the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church and the National Division, World Division, Woman’s Division, Joint Commission on Education and Cultivation: Netherland Hilton Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio and Sheraton Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky: January 11–20, 1967, New York, N.Y.: Board of Missions, The Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 28
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