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documentary film
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Noun1.documentary film - a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or eventdocumentary film - a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
docudrama, documentary, infotainment
motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, film, picture show, flick, picture - a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"
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