He drew his share of criticism: it was sometimes suggested that his documentaries were not sufficiently probing, that his so-called docudramas took too many liberties with the facts, that he was more showman than historian. ❋ By RICHARD SEVERO (2010)
Vast as the Roosevelt literature is, biography nowadays must also compete with theater, movies, television plays, documentaries, and "docudramas," though not yet an opera. ❋ Baker, Russell (2009)
Now is not the time for anyone to be making "docudramas" about what lead up to the 9/11 attack. ❋ Unknown (2008)
All "docudramas" dramatize and even fictionalize part of what they depict, but it is hard to imagine a more inappropriate venue for fictionalizing events than a film which purports to document the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks and assign blame for those attacks. ❋ Glenn Greenwald (2006)
It is not just the heavy-handed suppression of certain news stories from our newspapers or the blatant propagandizing of history-distorting TV "docudramas" which characterizes the opinion-manipulating techniques of the media masters. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Sagansky, Bloomberg, and Littlefield pick the programs their networks will broadcast: the game shows, the interview shows, the situation comedies, the historical "docudramas," the family series, the adventure series, the specials. ❋ Unknown (2008)
'docudramas' that characterizes the opinion-manipulating techniques of the media masters. ❋ Dragline190d (2009)
Playwright Goodchild has had a long career as a producer of science documentaries, docudramas and plays at the BBC. ❋ Jane Horwitz (2011)
On Twitter, Andrew Breitbart and Media Matters senior fellow Eric Boehlert have the sort of feud that Showtime docudramas are written about. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Unlike other anthology programmers, this ABC network series episodes were presented in the form of straightforward thirty-minute docudramas, all said to be based on true events. ❋ Zen Tiger (2010)
OK, were into Sunday morning, and it seems appropriate to frame the venture with two docudramas about political movements that went seriously awry, so I'll close out the weekend with this one unless I squeeze in an "audience favorite" Sunday afternoon - entirely possible. ❋ Reel Fanatic (2009)
Maybe I don't know enough about him and should have watched the docudrama (and docudramas are so reliable as biography :) ) to discover his redeeming features.( ❋ Gillpolack (2009)
I know the theory behind docudramas and all, that sometimes characters are composites and small details might be changed. ❋ Littlemissattitude (2009)
* If docudramas on controversial historical topics are to be banned, then why did one of the major networks show Oliver Stone's paranoid "JFK", which COMPLETELY dismissed the Warren Commission's findings? ❋ Unknown (2009)
From the homeless on the streets (another bit of history that will make for some great high-concept docudramas in fifty years) to the greatest Olympic champions of our time, to our presidents. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Maybe you could sell it as one of those docudramas? ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)
