docu

Noun

documentary (countable and uncountable, plural documentaries)

1. A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
   • Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.2014 December 4, Brooks Barnes, Michael Cieply, “Documentaries Jostle Against Oscar Obscurity”, in The New York Times, retrieved 28 Jun 2015
2. (uncountable) Such works collectively, as a genre.
   • Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 61

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