A dramatic film presenting a fictionalized version of a real story. Docudramas use real names but take artistic license with the details. Related to but distinct from "dramatic reconstructions" in nonfiction documentary films.
Compare Historical Fiction, which takes even stronger Artistic License with the facts while featuring real people.
Docudramas with pages on this wiki:
- 7 Wonders of the Industrial World
- 10 Rillington Place
- 12 Days of Terror
- 2057
- The Age of Stupid
- An Adventure in Space and Time
- All the President's Men
- American Crime Story
- Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
- And the Band Played On
- Apollo 13
- Balibo
- Band of Brothers
- The Battle of Algiers
- Barbarians Rising
- Bombshell (2019)
- The Boston Strangler
- Boys Don't Cry
- Call Northside 777
- Captain Phillips
- Casualty 1906
- Challenger
- Charlie Wilson's War
- Chernobyl
- Conspiracy (2001)
- Culloden
- The Day of the Roses
- Days of Betrayal
- Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End
- Dr G Medical Examiner
- Earth 2100
- End Day
- Enid
- Equal
- From the Earth to the Moon
- Frost/Nixon
- The Frozen Ground
- The Gamechangers
- Good Night, and Good Luck.
- Goodfellas
- The Gray Man (2007)
- Harley and the Davidsons
- A Haunting
- I Survived
- In Cold Blood
- In the Name of the Father
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- Kill the Messenger
- The Last Czars
- The Longest Day
- Masters of Sex
- Matewan
- Mr Bates vs The Post Office
- Mystery Diagnosis
- A Night to Remember
- No
- Nuremberg
- The Post
- Quiz Show
- The Right Stuff
- Saving the Titanic
- The Serpent
- Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets
- Speer Und Er
- Spotlight
- Supervolcano
- Thirteen Days
- Thirteen Lives
- Touching The Void
- To Walk Invisible
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
- The Town That Dreaded Sundown
- United 93
- Walking with Dinosaurs series does this for Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. In fact, a good deal of Nature Documentaries fit this trope.
- When We Rise
- World Trade Center
- The Wrong Man
- Zodiac