• Dutch: documentair
• French: documentaire

• Hebrew: תיעודי (ti'udy)

Noun

1. A film, TV program, book etc that presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

Translations

• Dutch: documentaire
• Finnish: dokumentti
• French: documentaire
• German: Dokumentation

A documentary is a creative work of non-fiction, including:

• Documentary film, including television
• Radio documentary
• Documentary photography

Related terms include:

• documentary, a Canadian digital television channel devoted to documentaries.
• Documentary Center
• DOC: The Documentary Channel
• Documentary comedy
• Documentary style
• Documentary theatre
• Conventions in documentary

The word documentary is also an adjective meaning "related to, or based on, documents". For example:

• Documentary evidence
• Documentary hypothesis

Examples of Documentary being used as a title include:

• The Documentary, a 2005 album by The Game
• "Documentary Special", a special episode of the TV show The West Wing

list of documentaries

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