I. noun
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a documentary film
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He has just completed a documentary film about Thomas Jefferson.
a television documentary
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a television documentary about an important public issue
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television
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In 1975 author Francis Hitching was commissioned to write a book and television documentary entitled Earth Magic.
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The statement was aired for the first time in a recent television documentary on his life.
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None the less, as a recent television documentary showed, women still rise to this challenge.
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Its letters were like official communications combined with television documentaries and newspaper reports.
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Three major national television documentaries , including one on the work of the local Drugs Squad, brought Wirral to national attention.
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This could be for a television documentary about the town or for a town pageant.
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Also television documentaries are making increasing use of archive film from the stores of national and regional film archives.
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make
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She made a documentary about having reconstructive surgery, to help other women understand what the process was like.
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A veteran independent filmmaker for over 30 years, Young has made award-winning documentaries and well-reviewed feature films.
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John Cleese once made a documentary about them.
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What is the motive of the people making this documentary ?
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Very little material was ever screened, other than poorly made Soviet documentaries designed for propaganda.
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Although Newsreel made some startlingly good documentaries , shortage of funds was a constant problem.
produce
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He is also producing a documentary on the project.
watch
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Against overwhelming odds, I surrendered myself and watched a glut of documentaries about the military hardware.
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You could spend nearly the whole day watching nothing but nature documentaries , and if you did you would emerge exhausted.
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a fly-on-the-wall documentary about teenage pregnancy
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He made a TV documentary about the flower children of the sixties.
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The documentary explores the success of a Jewish sect intent on keeping ancient traditions alive.
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A documentary on the interviews will run on Monday on the Turner Broadcasting System.
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Filmmaker Mandy Jacobson was working on the documentary at the time and had run out of money.
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It was time, as a city documentary of the period declared, to root the cancer out.
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Since it opened, the Centre has received much positive publicity, including a recent documentary on Channel Four.
II. adjective
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evidence
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It is unusual to find documentary evidence earlier than the fifteenth century, and extremely fortunate to find actual details of buildings.
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Only Hangleton, now buried beneath Hove, has been adequately excavated and the archaeological work related to documentary evidence .
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The main input to the review process is documentary evidence .
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The historian's problem is that there is insufficient archaeological or documentary evidence to establish the chronology of this process.
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As it so happens, Columbus' personal reactions can be reconstructed in some detail from documentary evidence .
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Moreover, there is documentary evidence that adolescents have always attended the game without the supervision of adults.
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I was examining teachers and teaching in one school using such methods as participant observation, unstructured interviews and documentary evidence .
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The idea of questioning is central to the chapters on reading, note making and documentary evidence .
film
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Repetitive slapstick, it has the charm of earliest documentary film .
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She was born there, she lived there until age 21, and she has made nine documentary films about the country.
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It's not a documentary film , is it?
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That experience was committed to a documentary film of the same name.
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Acquisition of both aircraft and the invaders participation in the race will be the subject of a documentary film .
material
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This is one example of a task related to an extract from off-air documentary material within a unit on drugs.
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The visual element of documentary material is quite different - at least when location shots are used.
series
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Only later, years later, would we be told in documentary series what happened.
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No one would trust a documentary series about labor unions paid for entirely by union funds.
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The conference was to discuss the programmes currently under production as part of the documentary series .
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Beforehand, the pretence that he was interested in putting together a documentary series on psychic phenomena had seemed a good one.
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Lehder provided no documentary evidence to support his claims.
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A documentary programme could form the basis for discussion in the weekly slot for communicative activities.
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I was examining teachers and teaching in one school using such methods as participant observation, unstructured interviews and documentary evidence.
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No one would trust a documentary series about labor unions paid for entirely by union funds.
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Repetitive slapstick, it has the charm of earliest documentary film.
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So this element in documentary programmes is a good source of examples of authentic, spontaneous speech.
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The memoirs and documentary editions published reflected a relatively wide range of Marxist approaches.