DOCUMENTARY


Meaning of DOCUMENTARY in English

I.

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ film , radio , television , TV

▪ controversial

▪ science , wildlife , etc.

▪ forty-minute , half-hour , hour-long , etc.

▪ feature ( esp. AmE ), feature-length

▪ fly-on-the-wall ( esp. BrE )

VERB + DOCUMENTARY

▪ do , make , produce

She has made a television ~ on poverty in our cities.

▪ film

▪ air ( esp. AmE ), broadcast ( esp. BrE ), show

▪ see , watch

DOCUMENTARY + NOUN

▪ feature , film , programme/program , series

a ~ film maker

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the ~

There were some interesting interviews in the ~.

▪ ~ about , ~ on

a ~ about identical twins

II.

adj.

Documentary is used with these nouns: ↑ evidence , ↑ film , ↑ photograph , ↑ photographer , ↑ photography , ↑ programme , ↑ proof , ↑ record , ↑ series , ↑ source , ↑ video

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .