Docudrama

Docudrama is mainly understood as being a docufiction with the participation of actors and narrative dramatization. This term is generally used to refer to films in TV programs. It’s incorrectly used when simply referring to docufiction films. It may mean a documentary film with a purpose of didactic or historical illustration. It’s sometimes also referred, in terms of journalism or literature, as «docufiction», i.e. as a piece of «literary journalism» or literature: the creative nonfiction. Docudramas tend to demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics: Docudramas, then, are distinct both from the main line of historical fiction, in which the historical setting is a mere backdrop for a plot that could be set in many periods, and from straight documentary or journalistic writing in its creation of a coherent narrative out of the materials of history. The impulse to incorporate historical material into literary texts has been an intermittent feature of literature in... full article at wikipedia