Documentary television programs (Genre/Form Term)

Moving image genre-form guide online, June 11, 2007: (Documentary: Nonfiction work defined by documentary pioneer John Grierson as the creative treatment of actuality. Grounded in some aspect of real life, documentaries may vary from a very deliberate account of facts to an extremely interpretive rendering of a subject, advocating a particular viewpoint on a political, social, or historical issue.)

Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993: p. 77 (Documentary (Docu, Documentary Film, Factual Film, Non-Fiction Film, Realist Film); The word 'telementary' has been used to describe a documentary made for television. Documentaries may seek to document and inform, teach or educate on some subject or other, or simply record for posterity the doings of people and nature.)