documentary

About 5.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of, related to, or based on documents.
2. adjective Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.
3. adjective Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

   a documentary film

4. noun A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
5. noun Such works collectively, as a genre.

Similar words

docudrama infotainment documental documentary film written writing archival library documentation record

Often followed by

evidence history film and sources on films material about

Word family

documentaries documentarily