documentary

  1. Adjective.  of, related to, or based on documents.
  2. Adjective.  which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
  3. Adjective.  (context, of a film, book etc) presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
  4. Noun.  A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

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