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Documentaries and Factual Films MeSH Descriptor Data 2025
This heading is used as a Publication Type. For documentaries, motion pictures and films as a subject, index under the main heading MOTION PICTURES. INDEXER: Do not use
Scope Note
Works consisting of films, videos, and programs which depict actual persons or actual events. They do not include frank historical re-creations and do not attempt to judge the truth of the depiction in a film purporting to be factual or documentary in character. (From Moving Image Materials: Genre Terms, 1988)
Works consisting of films, videos, and programs which depict actual persons or actual events. They do not include frank historical re-creations and do not attempt to judge the truth of the depiction in a film purporting to be factual or documentary in character. (From Moving Image Materials: Genre Terms, 1988)