The word 'docudrama' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a combination of the words 'documentary' and 'drama' and refers to a type of film or television program that presents a fictionalized account of real-life events. You can use the word 'docudrama' when talking about a film or TV show that blends elements of documentary and drama. For example: "The new docudrama about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. received critical acclaim for its powerful storytelling and historical accuracy." Or "The docudrama series on Netflix explores the behind-the-scenes drama of a popular 90s sitcom."
Morgan became the guv'nor of the docudrama or "faction" genre with biographical projects including the stage play and film Frost/Nixon, and the screenplays The Deal and The Queen, which imagined Tony Blair's dealings with Gordon Brown and The Queen respectively.
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"OH MY God, what have we done?" is one of the memorable lines from the HBO docudrama, "Game Change", as John McCain's presidential campaign team comes to see at last that it should have spent rather more time vetting Sarah Palin, the then governor of Alaska, before picking her as the senator's presidential running-mate in 2008.
WHEN the HBO docudrama "Too Big to Fail" first aired on American television in May, many critics were willing to extend the project some credit, as it were, for seeking thrills in a situation that Michael Kinsley described as "Too Complicated to Understand".
HBO's docudrama "Too Big to Fail", although it was based on the non-fiction book of the same name, also suffered from a push for thrills that verges on desperate, with yelling and goddammits and meaningful stares into bathroom mirrors throughout.
Every episode made some claim to serious scientific purpose, but the demands of television docudrama meant that sharks, dolphins, whales and buried treasure made very frequent appearances in the schedule.
And $100m is a lot of money for a TV company to invest in a docudrama about a long-dead president.
Thus, the "docudrama," "nonfiction novel," and television miniseries " based on a true story" have proliferated to supplement the flagging imaginations of the fabulators.
He embarked on a film career with a role as a factory foreman in the docudrama The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951), but he did not receive significant attention until his performance as the belligerent jailer Fatso Judson in the widely praised military drama From Here to Eternity (1953).
He continued to perform occasionally, appearing in the film The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) with Katharine Hepburn, and in the television films Pinocchio (1976), in which he played the role of Geppetto, and Skokie (1981), a highly praised docudrama that featured Kaye as a Holocaust death-camp survivor.
Taurog switched gears with The Beginning or the End (1947), a compelling docudrama about the development of the atomic bomb, with Brian Donlevy as Leslie Groves and Hume Cronyn as J. Robert Oppenheimer.
