documentary

Meanings

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

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

Related

Opposite words

• fiction

Origin

• From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum.