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Biopic vs Documentary - What's the difference?

biopic | documentary |

As nouns the difference between biopic and documentary

is that biopic is a motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people) while documentary is a film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

As an adjective documentary is

of, related to, or based on documents.

biopic

English

Noun

(wikipedia biopic) (en noun)
  • A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people).

    • Synonyms

    * biographical film ----

    documentary

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of, related to, or based on documents.
  • which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
  • presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia documentary) (documentaries)
  • A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

    • Antonyms

    * fiction

    Derived terms

    * fuckumentary * mockumentary * schlockumentary * shockumentary * stalkumentary

    Related terms

    * docudrama

    Anagrams

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