Documentary

Adjective

 * of, related to, or based on documents.
 * 1) which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
 * 2)  presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

Noun

 * 1) A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

Antonyms

 * fiction

Derived terms

 * mockumentary

Related terms

 * docudrama

Adverbs for Documentary
inescapably; genuinely; trustworthily; ecclesiastically; legally; amazingly; formidably; briefly; momentously; dangerously; significantly; irreproachably; fatally; ponderously; trenchantly; uncommonly; unexpectedly ; surprisingly.

Thesaurus
3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, absolute, actual, adducible, admissible, animated cartoon, archival, ascertained, attestative, attested, attestive, authentic, authenticated, based on, black-and-white film, cartoon, categorically true, certain, certified, chiller, cinema, circumstantial, color film, conclusive, confirmed, convincing, corroborated, creepie, cumulative, damning, decisive, demonstrated, determinative, determined, documental, documentary film, documentational, documented, educational film, effectual, epigraphic, established, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, feature, film, final, firsthand, flick, flicker, founded on, grounded on, hearsay, historical, horror picture, horse opera, implicit, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, irrefutable, irresistible, material, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, necrological, newsreel, not in error, nudie, nuncupative, obituary, objectively true, overwhelming, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, presumptive, preview, probative, proved, real, reliable, short, significant, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, substantiated, suggestive, sure, sure-enough, symptomatic, talkie, talking picture, telling, testimonial, thriller, trailer, true, true as gospel, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, underground film, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, valid, validated, veracious, verified, veritable, weighty

Etymology
From adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from  documentum.

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: документален
 * Dutch: documentair
 * French:


 * Russian:
 * Swedish: dokumentär
 * Volapük: dokümik


 * Hebrew: תיעודי (ti'udy)


 * Swedish: dokumentär

Noun

 * Bulgarian: документален филм

Antonyms

 * Arabic: فيلم وثائقي
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 紀錄片, 纪录片, 記錄片, 记录片
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Dokumentarfilm


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ドキュメンタリー
 * Norwegian: dokumentar
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dokumentär, dokumentärfilm
 * Turkish: belgesel

Anagrams

 * countrymade