Documentaries and Factual Films
"Documentaries and Factual Films" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Works consisting of films, videos, and programs which depict actual persons or actual events. They do not include frank historical re-creations and do not attempt to judge the truth of the depiction in a film purporting to be factual or documentary in character. (From Moving Image Materials: Genre Terms, 1988)
| Descriptor ID |
D019499
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| MeSH Number(s) |
V02.315
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