It's a straightforward historical dramatization, based on writings by Charles Péguy (1873-1914), of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who was possessed by a fierce Christian devotion and a bitter spirit of resistance to the English armies occupying France.
The association has filed complaints in two Spanish courts seeking to block the channel Telecinco from showing the film, "Vuelo IL 8714," a dramatization based on the crash during takeoff of a Spanair jet headed from Madrid to the Canary Islands on Aug. 20, 2008, killing 154 people.
This dramatization is based on the book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, the third in their series of "Killing" titles.
There is no attempt at psychological or even biographical realism in the 1976 TV dramatization Helter Skelter (also based on Bugliosi's book), which offers nothing to people who've seen the documentary with original footage.
The movie is a stirring dramatization, directed by Joseph Kosinski, based on a nonfiction account in GQ by Sean Flynn (and co-produced by Condé Nast Entertainment), of the real-life activities of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, heroic fighters of wildfires in Arizona.
Its evolution was accompanied by a less formal counterpart based on the dramatization of folk songs linked by a thin narrative plot (Chueichang).
The question is doubly current, given the forthcoming release of "The End of the Tour," the dramatization of David Lipsky's nonfiction book based on the transcripts of his discussions with David Foster Wallace, about whom he was in the process of writing a profile for Rolling Stone.
Scenes based on fact were juxtaposed with dramatizations of excerpts from a bitter short story about destroyed innocence by Ina Rousseau, an Afrikaner poet.
One such story — a dramatization of Patricia Polacco's children's book "The Butterfly," based on the early experiences of her Aunt Monique, who helped her family hide a Jewish girl, Sévrine, in Nazi-occupied France — is now coming back to the stage.
Based on interviews and reports, the Discovery Channel produced some slick dramatizations, with actors as stand-ins for the fallen fighters.
Typical of a number of Noh plays that are dramatizations of Chinese history and legends is the 15th-century Yōkihi by Komparu Zenchiku, based on the 9th-century narrative poem Chang hen ge ("The Song of Everlasting Sorrow") by Bai Juyi.
