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documentary English

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What does documentary mean?
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documentary

A documentary is a type of movie or TV program that gives real information about a specific topic or event.

documentary

a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event relating to or consisting of or derived from documents (= objective) emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation objective art

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Simple sentences

I watch a movie or documentary almost every day.
I don't watch a lot of movies, but I can't resist a good documentary.
That documentary about the environmental crisis was a real eye-opener.
The documentary was narrated by Morgan Freeman.
The documentary is meant to raise consciousness about the plight of the poor.
I have to watch this documentary.
I saw a very interesting documentary yesterday.
I watched a documentary about sushi.
Tom is a documentary maker.
Tom and Mary watched a documentary.
Tom and Mary watched a documentary about squirrels.
Tom watched a BBC documentary.
The danger of AIDS came home to me when I saw a documentary film on it last night.
I'm watching a documentary.
I will watch a documentary.
I watched a documentary.
I'm going to watch a documentary.
I was watching a documentary.
I want to watch a documentary.
I'm making a documentary.

Movie subtitles

There are many eminent scholars who have documentary proof of the actual practice of witchcraft.
It will complete a documentary.
Documentary, huh?
It's a documentary.
I'm just completing a documentary.
You're a documentary and a half, you are.
And that concludes presentation of documentary evidence. against these defendants.
Yeah, about your documentary on Africa.
A documentary by Robert Colomb.
They're shooting a documentary.
You see, next week I'm going away on a documentary trip to. eastward. to Soviet.
After dinner I walk the dog, or I read, watch TV, if there's a good documentary.
I did this documentary.
They're doing a prize-winning documentary on me.
The image and sound of the documentary material were recorded on location using the Shorin system in mines, factories and other real locations.
Invisibility-effects highlights from the group appear as part of the video documentary included on this special-edition DVD.
When did a press officer ever surrender documentary evidence?
Documentary, huh? What's it about?
Well, tomorrow we find out if New York likes documentary opera.
This will be documentary proof that you've been a humane guardian of Allied prisoners.
Well, Lily, they explained that it's a documentary, like Naked City.
No, the documentary.
Mr. Hassan, if you'd like Mike and I would be more than happy to, uh, assist you in filming a little documentary of your stay here at Wameru.
Uh, this is going to be documentary number one.
Wow, it looks like a documentary about a craft!
That concludes presentation of documentary evidence against these defendants.
They show a documentary on another one.
Ok, you are a documentary photographer.
And uh, I help Anna with the cooking. And after dinner I walk the dog, or I read, watch television, if there's a good documentary.
I think there might be an idea for a good documentary in this.
I play the devil's advocate in all this. and to do so I seek and I find. dangerous documentary evidence. which I'll give to our colleague when everything is over so he can make a nice bonfire.
My documentary?
I'm not in the mood to see a four hour documentary on Nazis.

News and current affairs

Gates might even be planning a television documentary on racial profiling.
Consider former US Vice President Al Gore, for example, whose documentary film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, is celebrated for its unflinching look at how fossil fuel consumption is leading mankind to the brink of catastrophe.
MELBOURNE - Two new movies released this month - one a science-fiction blockbuster, the other a revealing documentary - raise the issue of our relations with our closest non-human relatives, the great apes.
As far as the treatment of apes is concerned, much of the film is firmly grounded in reality, as a viewing of Project Nim, a documentary based on Elizabeth Hess's book Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be Human, clearly demonstrates.
Last summer, Hadjiev's brother and sister were arrested after they collaborated on a documentary about Turkmenistan, and were tried on trumped-up charges of weapons possession.
Unfortunately, the Japanese government, despite much circumstantial and even documentary evidence supplied by Japanese historians, now chooses to deny the wartime regime's responsibility for this ghastly project.
A remarkable new documentary film, The House I Live In, shows that America's story is even sadder and crueler than that, owing to disastrous policies.
By February 2012, the war in Libya is over, and I am wrapping up my documentary film about the conflict.
The theme of Obama's life, clearly expressed in his eloquent memoir Dreams from My Father, and shown in the recent Frontline documentary The Choice, is reconciliation.
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warns that more documentary evidence of wrongdoing at Abu Ghraib prison lies in store, evidently in the preemptive hope that the outrages stopped there.
The hot northern summer fits well with the release of An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film featuring former US Vice-President Al Gore.
But Countdown to Zero, an equally compelling documentary, made by the same production team and making shockingly clear how close and how often the world has come to nuclear catastrophe, has come and gone almost without trace.
More truthful accounts, such as Marcel Ophuls's magisterial documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1968) were, to say the least, unwelcome.
I had the honor of attending the premiere of The Most Dangerous Man in America, the new documentary about Daniel Ellsberg and his daring release of the Pentagon Papers - against the will of the US government - to The New York Times back in 1971.
The Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job raised some sensitivities and led to increased disclosures by some people, including academics, concerning their involvement with the financial industry.
PARK CITY, UTAH - The last documentary film that used dry charts and statistics to make an abstract argument about a global issue and nonetheless became a pop-culture hit was Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

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