documentary

English

Etymology

From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum. Equivalent to document +‎ -ary.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/, /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tə.ɹi/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌdɑ.kjəˈmɛn.tə.ɹi/, /ˌdɑ.kjəˈmɛn.tɹi/

  • Audio (Texas):

    (file)

Adjective

documentary (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or based on documents.

   Synonyms: documentative, documentational

2. Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.

   Synonyms: documentative, documentational

3. (of a film, book, etc) Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

   a documentary film

   • 1982 February 6, Martin Krieger, “Stark/Erotic”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 10:

     Just as there is a tradition of history painting, so there is one of history photographs — which of course are not documentary. They're posed as the world was supposed to be.

Derived terms

• documentarily
• documentariness
• documentary hypothesis
• nondocumentary
• predocumentary
• quasidocumentary
• undocumentary

Translations

of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something

Arabic: وَثَائِقِيّ (ar) m (waṯāʔiqiyy) Belarusian: дакумента́льны (dakumjentálʹny) Bulgarian: документа́лен (dokumentálen) Catalan: documental (ca) Dutch: documentair (nl) Finnish: dokumentaarinen French: documentaire (fr) Georgian: დოკუმენტური (doḳumenṭuri) Hindi: वृत्तचित्र (vŕttacitra) Icelandic: heimilda- Indonesian: dokumenter (id) Polish: dokumentalny (pl), dokumentarny Portuguese: documental (pt) Romanian: documentar (ro) m Russian: документа́льный (ru) (dokumentálʹnyj) Spanish: documental (es), documentario Swedish: dokumentarisk (sv) Thai: สารคดี (th) (sǎa-rá-ká-dii) Ukrainian: документа́льний (dokumentálʹnyj) Volapük: dokümik (vo)

presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter

Arabic: مُوَثَّق m (muwaṯṯaq) Armenian: վավերագրական (hy) (vaveragrakan) Azerbaijani: sənədli (az) Czech: dokumentární (cs) Finnish: dokumentaarinen Georgian: დოკუმენტური (doḳumenṭuri) Hebrew: תִּעוּדִי (ti'udí) Hindi: वृत्तचित्र (vŕttacitra) Italian: documentario (it) m Portuguese: documental (pt) Spanish: documental (es) m Swedish: dokumentär (sv) Thai: สารคดี (th) (sǎa-rá-ká-dii)

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

documentary film

Wikipedia

documentary (countable and uncountable, plural documentaries)

1. A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
   • 2014 December 4, Brooks Barnes, Michael Cieply, “Documentaries Jostle Against Oscar Obscurity”, in The New York Times, retrieved 28 June 2015:

     Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.

2. (uncountable) Such works collectively, as a genre.
   • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 61:

     Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals.

Antonyms

• fiction

Derived terms

• antidocumentary
• doco
• docucomedy
• docudrama
• docufantasy
• docufiction
• docufilm
• documedia
• documemoir
• documentarian
• documentarist
• documentarylike
• documercial
• docuseries
• docusoap
• docutainment
• drama documentary
• dramamentary
• false documentary
• fictional documentary
• fuckumentary
• microdocumentary
• minidocumentary
• mockumentary
• photodocumentary
• pseudodocumentary
• rockumentary
• schlockumentary
• semidocumentary
• shockumentary
• soapumentary
• stalkumentary
• vlogumentary
• webumentary

Translations

programme or publication of fact

Afrikaans: dokumentêr, dokkie Arabic: وَثَائِقِيّ (ar) m (waṯāʔiqiyy), شَرِيطٌ وَثَائِقِيّ m (šarīṭun waṯāʔiqiyy) Armenian: վավերագրական կինոնկար (hy) (vaveragrakan kinonkar) Catalan: documental (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 紀錄片 / 纪录片 (zh) (jìlùpiàn) Czech: dokument (cs) m Dutch: documentaire (nl) m, docu (nl) m Estonian: dokumentaalfilm, tõsielufilm, dokk (colloquial) Finnish: dokumentaari (fi), dokumenttielokuva (fi), dokumentti (fi) French: documentaire (fr) m German: Dokumentation (de) f, Doku (de) f Hindi: वृत्तचित्र (vŕttacitra) Irish: clár faisnéise m, scannán faisnéise m (film) Malay: dokumentari Maori: motuhenga, pakipūmeka Norwegian: Bokmål: dokumentar (no) m, dokumentarprogram n Nynorsk: dokumentar m, dokumentarprogram n Occitan: documentari (oc) m Portuguese: documentário (pt) m Spanish: documental (es) m Swedish: dokumentärfilm (sv) c, dokumentär (sv) c Tagalog: dokumentaryo, dokumental Thai: สารคดี (th) (sǎa-rá-ká-dii) Turkish: belgesel (tr) West Frisian: dokumintêre m

documentary film

Albanian: film dokumentar m Arabic: فِلْم وَثَائِقِيّ m (film waṯāʔiqiyy), فيلم وثائقي m (fīlm waṯāʔiqiyy) Armenian: վավերագրական կինոնկար (hy) (vaveragrakan kinonkar) Azerbaijani: sənədli film Belarusian: дакумента́льны фільм m (dakumjentálʹny filʹm) Bengali: প্রামাণ্য চলচ্চিত্র (pramanno coloccitro) Bulgarian: документа́лен филм m (dokumentálen film) Catalan: documental (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 紀錄片 / 纪录片 (zh) (jìlùpiàn), 記錄片 / 记录片 (zh) (jìlùpiàn) Corsican: documentariu m, ducumentariu m Czech: dokumentární film m Danish: dokumentarfilm c Dutch: documentaire (nl) m, documentairefilm (nl) m Esperanto: dokumentfilmo Estonian: dokumentaalfilm Finnish: dokumentti (fi), dokumenttielokuva (fi), dokkari (fi) French: documentaire (fr) m, film documentaire m Georgian: დოკუმენტური ფილმი (doḳumenṭuri pilmi) German: Dokumentation (de) f, Dokumentarfilm (de) m Greek: ντοκιμαντέρ (el) n (ntokimantér) Hebrew: צִלוּמֵי תְּעוּדָה m (tsilumé t'udá) Hindi: वृत्तचित्र m (vŕttacitra) Hungarian: dokumentumfilm (hu) Icelandic: heimildamynd f Indonesian: film dokumenter (id) Irish: scannán faisnéise m Italian: documentario (it) m Japanese: ドキュメンタリー (ja) (dokyumentarī), 記録映画 (きろくえいが, kiroku eiga) Kazakh: деректі фильм (derektı film) Khmer: ភាពយន្តឯកសារ (phiəpyŭən ʼaekaʼsaa) Korean: 다큐멘터리 (ko) (dakyumenteori), 기록영화(記錄映畫) (ko) (girogyeonghwa) Kyrgyz: документ кино (dokument kino) Lao: ຟິມເອກະສານ (fim ʼē ka sān) Latvian: dokumentālā filma f Lithuanian: dokumentinis kinas m Macedonian: документа́рец m (dokumentárec), документа́рен филм m (dokumentáren film) Malay: filem dokumentari Maori: pakipūmeka Mongolian: Cyrillic: баримтат кино (barimtat kino) Norwegian: Bokmål: dokumentar (no) m, dokumentarfilm m Nynorsk: dokumentar m, dokumentarfilm m Persian: مستند (fa) (mostanad), فیلم مستند (fa) (film-e mostanad) Polish: film dokumentalny (pl) m, dokument (pl) m Portuguese: documentário (pt) m Romanian: documentar (ro) n, film documentar n Russian: документа́льный фильм (ru) m (dokumentálʹnyj filʹm) Scots: documentarie, documentarie film Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: документарни филм m Roman: dokumentarni film m Slovak: dokumentárny film m Slovene: dokumentarni film m Spanish: documental (es) m Swedish: dokumentär (sv) c, dokumentärfilm (sv) c Tagalog: dokumentaryo Tajik: филми мустанад (film-i mustanad) Thai: สารคดี (th) (sǎa-rá-ká-dii), ภาพยนตร์สารคดี (pâap-pá-yon-sǎa-rá-ká-dii) Turkish: belgesel (tr), belgesel film (tr) Ukrainian: документа́льний фільм m (dokumentálʹnyj filʹm) Uyghur: ھۆججەتلىك فىلىم (höjjetlik filim) Uzbek: hujjatli film Vietnamese: phim tài liệu West Frisian: dokumintêre m, dokumintêrefilm m

See also

• cinéma vérité

Anagrams

• countrymade