... of filmmaking creates inextricable narratives, and the spectator is often not able to distinguish between known facts the film is based on and its fictional elements. Paget argues that this makes docudrama film “a form in its own right” and it can only be understood properly if the uniqueness of the docudrama...

... of national commemoration. Without a cinematic record of early American history, the studio turned to “docudrama” as the solution to a narrative problem of documentary historiography. Combining the form and style of period fiction with the truth-telling charge of documentary, docudramas...

... of ‘docudrama’ realism and depictions of war and conflict distant from then dominant British norms, marked ambitions that would be pursued in much of Watkins’ subsequent work. This chapter analyses Watkins’ pre-professional filmmaking in detail, and argues that the director’s amateurism did not dissolve...

.... Hollywood was addressed as one of the ‘enemies within’ by counter-subversives in the United States during the early Cold War years. Louis de Rochement was considered as the father of the American docudrama. He emerged as the Federal Bureau of Investigation's favourite independent producer...

... pantomime comedy Bannister Winifred MacLennan Elizabeth Boyd Eddie political theatre docudrama humour and pathos naturalism social realism ‘Clydebuilt’ epic confrontations expressionist popular political forms poverty gender conflict Ena Lamont Stewart’s Men Should Weep...

... and Textiles Workers Union ACTWU American Playhouse Davis Dave Kopple Barbara Law Lindsey Norma Rae Ritt 1979 Ritt Martin Sutton Crystal Lee textile mills unions brown lung disease docudrama Foote Horton Glover Danny Kane Carol Rodd Marcia Roderick Paul screenwriters dialogue performance...

...This chapter presents an interview with Michael Mann, who talks about his 1999 film The Insider. Starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino, The Insider is not only a docudrama about Big Tobacco, Big Television and a whistleblower who upends both; it is also...