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Docudrama
A docudrama is a dramatization of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction.
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...
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History Bites
History Bites was a television series on the History Television network that ran from 1998-2003. Created by Rick Green (The Frantics, Prisoners of Gravity, The Red Green Show), History Bites explored what would be on television if the medium had...
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Air date of first episode:
- 1998
Air date of final episode:
- 2003
Original episode running time:
- 30 min (18 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 102
Pompeii: The Last Day
Pompeii: The Last Day is a 2003 dramatized documentary that tells of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD. This eruption covered the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash and pumice, killing all those trapped between the...
Air date of first episode:
- Oct 20, 2003
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Ghost Hunters
Ghost Hunters is an American paranormal reality television series that premiered on October 6, 2004 on the Syfy Channel (previously SciFi). The program features paranormal investigators Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson who investigate places that are...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Oct 6, 2004
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Arthur of the Britons
Arthur of the Britons is a British television show about the historical King Arthur. Produced by the HTV regional franchise, it consisted of two series, released between 1972 and 1973. It was broadcast on several occasions on various local ITV...
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Air date of first episode:
- 1972
Air date of final episode:
- 1973
Number of episodes:
- 24
Smallpox
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon is a fictional docudrama produced by Wall to Wall, showing how a single act of bioterrorism leads to terrifying consequences globally.
The premise of it was one man who, in 2002, creates the smallpox virus himself,...
Air date of first episode:
- Feb 5, 2002
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Rescue 911
Rescue 911 is an informational reality-based television series, hosted by William Shatner. Originally intended to be only a set of three TV specials, Rescue 911 was picked up by CBS for the 1989 Fall season after two specials aired on April 18, 1989...
Air date of first episode:
- Apr 18, 1989
Air date of final episode:
- Aug 27, 1996
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 7
Oil Storm
Oil Storm is a 2005 television docudrama portraying a future oil-shortage crisis in the United States, precipitated by a hurricane destroying key parts of the United States' oil infrastructure. The program was an attempt to depict what would happen...
Air date of first episode:
- Jun 5, 2005
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Tumbledown
Tumbledown is a 1988 BBC Television Drama set during the Falklands War.
The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands Campaign of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown...
Air date of first episode:
- May 30, 1988
Original episode running time:
- 113 min (67.8 hs )
Space Race
Space Race is a BBC docudrama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between September and October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race up to the first landing of a man on the moon. It focusses on Sergei...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 2005
Air date of final episode:
- Oct 2005
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs ) ,
- more…
Number of episodes:
- 4
Egypt
Egypt is the title of a BBC television drama serial about various archaeological discoveries taking place in that country's history, with the occasional 'flashback' scene involving actors portraying the ancient Egyptians themselves. The hour-long...
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 6
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure is a 2005 American television movie based on the creation and behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty. It was broadcast on ABC on January 2, 2005.
The film begins with the...
Air date of first episode:
- Jan 2, 2005
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
The Day Britain Stopped
The Day Britain Stopped is a drama documentary produced by Wall to Wall for the BBC. It is based around a fictional disaster - in which a train strike is the first in a chain of events that lead to a meltdown of the country's transport system. The...
Air date of first episode:
- May 13, 2003
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets
Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets (released as Voyage To The Planets And Beyond in the United States) is a work of filmed docufiction (a fictional story presented in the form of a documentary) about a manned voyage through the solar system. Space...
Air date of first episode:
- Nov 9, 2004
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 2
Til' Death Do Us Part
'Til Death Do Us Part (also known in Canada and Australia as Love You To Death) is a television series that debuted on Court TV on March 19, 2007; not to be confused with the similarly-named Fox sitcom 'Til Death.
'Til Death Do Us Part goes by the...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Mar 19, 2007
Air date of final episode:
- Jun 4, 2007
Original episode running time:
- 30 min (18 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 12
Wish Ko Lang
Wish Ko Lang (JUST MY WISH) is the first wish-granting show on Philippine television. Its pilot episode was broadcast in July 2002, hosted by Bernadette Sembrano. She was later replaced by Vicky Morales after transferring to a rival network.
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Air date of first episode:
- 2002
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
The Falklands Play
The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly...
Air date of first episode:
- Apr 10, 2002
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
I Shouldn't Be Alive
I Shouldn't Be Alive (Alive in Britain) was an American documentary television series that aired from October 28, 2005 to March 5, 2007 on the Discovery Channel. The program told the stories of ordinary people who face incredible circumstances. The...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- 2005
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 3
Number of episodes:
- 20
Krakatoa - The Last Days
Krakatoa: The Last Days (also titled Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel) is a BBC Television docudrama that premiered on May 7, 2006 on BBC One. The program is based upon a selection of four eyewitness accounts of...
Air date of first episode:
- May 7, 2006
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
End Day
End Day is a 2005 docu-drama produced by the BBC and aired on the National Geographic Channel, on the TV series, National Geographic Channel Presents, that depicts various doomsday scenarios. The documentary follows the fictional scientist Dr....
Arrest & Trial
Arrest & Trial is a syndicated American nonfiction television program which follows individual criminal cases (commission, police investigation, and actual trial) via a combination of reenactments and real trial footage. Episodes run for 30 minutes,...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- 2000
Original episode running time:
- 23 min (14 hs )
Prehistoric Park
Prehistoric Park is a six-episode docu-fiction television mini-series that premiered on ITV on July 22, 2006 and on Animal Planet on October 29, 2006. The program was produced by Impossible Pictures Limited, who also created Walking with Dinosaurs....
Air date of first episode:
- Jul 22, 2006
Air date of final episode:
- Aug 26, 2006
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
A Haunting
A Haunting was an American paranormal docudrama anthology television series that originally aired from October 28, 2005 to November 9, 2007 on the Discovery Channel. The episodes comprise narrations and dramatic reenactments based on various...
Air date of first episode:
- 2002
Air date of final episode:
- 2007
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs ) ,
- more…
The National Dream
The National Dream was a 1974 Canadian television docudrama miniseries based on Pierre Berton's 1970 book of the same name, plus Berton's 1971 follow-up book The Last Spike.
The series portrayed the concept and construction of the Canadian Pacific...
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Air date of first episode:
- Mar 3, 1974
Air date of final episode:
- Apr 28, 1974
Number of episodes:
- 8
The Last Dragon
The Last Dragon, known as Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real in the United States, and also known as Dragon's World in other countries, is a docudrama made by Animal Planet that is described as the story of "the natural history of the most...
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Air date of first episode:
- 2004
Air date of final episode:
- 2004
Original episode running time:
- 99 min (59 hs )
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire is a 2006 BBC One docudrama series, with each episode looking at a different key turning point in the history of the Roman Empire.
Series Producer Mark Hedgecoe has stated that he made the series in...
Air date of first episode:
- 2006
Air date of final episode:
- Oct 26, 2006
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 6
Mostly True Stories
Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed is a docudrama about urban legends and re-enacting them and researching their credibility. It aired on The Learning Channel from 2002 until 2004. It ran for four seasons. Early episodes were hosted by...
Air date of first episode:
- Mar 19, 2002
Air date of final episode:
- 2008
Number of seasons:
- 4
Number of episodes:
- 29
Chased by Dinosaurs
This program features Nigel Marven as a time-traveller who encounters dinosaurs in the wild. The two-part series was broadcast over christmas 2002 and featured Nigel and his "team of fellow explorers" encountering prehistoric over a large range of...
Air date of first episode:
- 2002
Superstorm
Superstorm was a 2007 three-part miniseries docudrama produced by BBC Worldwide and was aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom for a period of three weeks, totaling three 59 minute episodes. It was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on July 2,...
Air date of first episode:
- 2007
Air date of final episode:
- 2007
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 3
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures is a 2004 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British crime-writer Agatha Christie in her own words.
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 22, 2004
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Paranormal State
Paranormal State is a docudrama reality television series for A&E; about a student-led college club, the Pennsylvania State University Paranormal Research Society. The show depicts the students' investigations of paranormal activity and supernatural...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Dec 10, 2007
Original episode running time:
- 30 min (18 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 32
Banged Up Abroad
Banged Up Abroad is a British documentary/docudrama television series that was produced for Channel Five and that premiered in March 2006. It is broadcast under the title Jailed Abroad in India and as Locked Up Abroad in the United States and other...
Air date of first episode:
- 2006
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, is a BBC documentary film series consisting of three one-hour films that re-enact the Nuremberg War Trials of Albert Speer, Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess. They were broadcast on BBC Two in 2006 to coincide with the 60th...
Air date of final episode:
- Oct 9, 2006
Number of episodes:
- 3
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', is a BBC six-episode documentary film series presenting the story of Auschwitz through interviews with former inmates and guards and re-enactments, first televised on BBC One on 11 January 2005. The...
Air date of first episode:
- 2005
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 6
Killing Hitler
Killing Hitler, is a BBC docudrama that examines the Operation Foxley plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Air date of first episode:
- Mar 30, 2003
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 2
Nuremberg
Nuremberg is a 2000 Canadian/United States television docudrama, based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico, that tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials.
At the close of World War II, Hermann Göring surrenders to the...
Air date of first episode:
- Jul 16, 2000
Original episode running time:
- 180 min (108 hs )
Dickens
Dickens was a 2002 BBC docudrama on the life of the author Charles Dickens. It was presented by Peter Ackroyd, on whose biography of Dickens it was based, and Dickens was played by Anton Lesser. It was broadcast in three hour-long episodes.
Air date of first episode:
- May 11, 2002
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 3
Victoria Cross Heroes
Victoria Cross Heroes is a three-part television docudrama recipients first broadcast by Five in 2006 that tells the stories of some of the recipients of the Victoria Cross.
The series was commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the...
Air date of final episode:
- Dec 3, 2006
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 3
Dunkirk
Dunkirk is a 2004 BBC television docudrama about the Battle of Dunkirk and the Dunkirk evacuation in World War II.
Day 1: Cpt. Bill Tennant, RN, at the Admiralty receives reports of the British Expeditionary Force's retreat and prepares to oversee...
Air date of final episode:
- Mar 3, 2004
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 3
The Man Who Broke Britain
The Man Who Broke Britain is a 2004 BBC Television docudrama about a financial collapse triggered by a devastating terrorist strike.
Air date of first episode:
- Dec 9, 2004
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Ian Fleming: Bondmaker
Ian Fleming: Bondmaker is a 2005 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author Ian Fleming.
Air date of first episode:
- Aug 28, 2005
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
H G Wells: War with the World
H G Wells: War With The World is a 2006 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author H.G. Wells.
Like the other films (George Orwell, Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming, Elizabeth David) in this critically acclaimed and award...
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 30, 2006
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story is a 2008 BBC Television docudrama written by Amanda Coe, telling the life story of the British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse. Julie Walters played the part of Whitehouse, Alun Armstrong her husband Ernest, and...
Air date of first episode:
- May 28, 2008
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher is a 2003 BBC Television comedy docudrama telling the life of Norman Stanley Fletcher from Porridge and Going Straight.
The film details how Norman Stanley Fletcher's life had panned out in the 25 years...
Air date of first episode:
- Dec 29, 2003
Original episode running time:
- 50 min (30 hs )
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes is a 2006 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British cookery writer Elizabeth David.
Air date of first episode:
- Jan 3, 2006
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
George Orwell: A Life in Pictures
George Orwell: A Life in Pictures is an Emmy award winning 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell.
Air date of first episode:
- Jun 14, 2003
Original episode running time:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Life Beyond the Box: Margo Leadbetter
Life Beyond the Box: Margo Leadbetter is a 2003 BBC Television comedy docudrama telling the life of Margo Leadbetter from The Good Life.
The film describes Margo's life since The Good Life finished. Unlike the earlier Life Beyond the Box: Norman...
Air date of first episode:
- Dec 31, 2003
Original episode running time:
- 50 min (30 hs )
The Worst Journey in the World
The Worst Journey in the World is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama based on the memoir of the same name by polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard.
A pre-title sequence shows Apsley Cherry-Garrard in London in 1938 struggling with his perceived...
Air date of first episode:
- Jun 13, 2007
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Call 911
Call 911 is a television show that premiered as a Court TV special on August 21, 2007, and began airing as a series on July 30, 2008 on Investigation Discovery. Each episode documents real 911 calls from people in trouble to emergency dispatchers....
Air date of first episode:
- Aug 21, 2007
Original episode running time:
- 30 min (18 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 20
Nuclear Secrets
Nuclear Secrets, aka Spies, Lies and the Superbomb, is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama series which looks at the race for nuclear supremacy from the Manhattan Project through to the Islamic Bomb.
The series was produced by the BBC in co-production...
Air date of final episode:
- Feb 12, 2007
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 5
Heroes and Villains
Heroes and Villains was a 2007-2008 BBC Television docudrama series looking at key moments in the lives and reputations of some of the greatest warriors of history. Each hour long episode featured a different historical figure, including Napoleon I...
Air date of first episode:
- Nov 11, 2007
Air date of final episode:
- Mar 29, 2008
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 6
The Rachel Zoe Project
The Rachel Zoe Project is an American reality docudrama series that premiered on September 9, 2008 on the Bravo television network. The show also airs on Arena in Australia, on Really in the United Kingdom and on SIC Mulher in Portugal
The series...
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 9, 2008
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 5
Geist Group
Ghosts and Entities Investigations Group (GEIST) is an organization based in Santa Rosa, California, USA that serves primarily as paranormal investigators. It was founded in 2006 by Daniel Thompson, Daniel J. Butler, and Daniel Pfeifer. In 2007 the...
Air date of first episode:
- Oct 31, 2007
Original episode running time:
- 15 min (9 hs )
Silent Voices
Silent Voices is a docudrama about domestic violence in the United Kingdom written for the Community Channel by Barbara Gorna, directed by Charles Harris and produced by Paul Atherton.
It was first screened on April 25 2005 at 21:00.
In 2008 Silent...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- 2005
Air date of final episode:
- 2007
Original episode running time:
- 50 min (30 hs )
LBJ: The Early Years
LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1934 until 1963. Actor Randy Quaid won a Golden Globe award for his...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Feb 1, 1987
Original episode running time:
- 155 min (93 hs )
Extreme Evidence
Extreme Evidence is an American docudrama television series that premiered on Court TV on September 29, 2003. Each half-hour episode attempts to use forensic science to uncover the cause of a catastrophic event. 3-D animation, and first-hand...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 29, 2003
Air date of final episode:
- 2005
Original episode running time:
- 23 min (14 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 26
A Good Dissonance Like a Man
A Good Dissonance Like a Man is a television program that examines the life of Charles Ives.
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Whose Child is This?
Whose Child is This is a television program.
Dummy
DUMMY is a television program. The true-life account of Donald Lang, a black deaf youth, illiterate and incapable of speech, who suffered an injustice after his arrest as a suspect in the murder of a Chicago prostitute.
The Staircase
The Staircase is a nine-episode series produced by and broadcast on the Sundance Channel.
Air date of first episode:
- Apr 4, 2005
Original episode running time:
- 47 min (28 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 9
Paranormal Matrix
Paranormal Matrix is a reality-based television series featuring a team of paranormal investigators on the search for what they call "Real People, Real Stories, Unreal Endings". The program showcases people with unusual abilities or knowledge, with...
Original episode running time:
- 30 min (18 hs )
