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This docudrama from director Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity) earned accolades and acclaim not merely for Helen Mirren's highly - decorated performance, but also for its involving human drama.

Following a privately funded space expedition to find alien life in one of Jupiter's moons, Europa Report is a low - budget faux - docudrama from Ecuadorian director Sebastian Corderos.

American chess phenomenon Bobby Fischer (Maguire) squares off against his Russian rival Boris Spassky (Schreiber) in the 1972 «Match of the Century» in Reykjavik, in this gripping docudrama from director Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond, Defiance, Love & Other Drugs) and screenwriter Steven Knight (Eastern Promises).

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Casey is most famous for footage that has aired on the Discovery Channel's docudrama series Storm Chasers, which follows scientists as they deploy data - collecting probes inside tornadoes from the confines of 16,000 - pound armored vehicles.

Critic Consensus: Though its politics are as obvious as its outcome, American Violet is an earnest docudrama about the justice system with a powerful performance from Nicole Behairie.

From his adaptations of unfilmable William Faulkner novels (The Sound and the Fury) to provocative docudramas (Interior.

The best part is the docudrama, which walks us through the legendary heists and escapes in detail, from the time of Dillinger's escape from an Indiana prison in 1933 to his death at the hands of federal agents in Chicago, 14 months later.

What this docudrama depicts is how Rabe goes from Nazi Party member to savior due to his efforts to provide sanctuary for the oppressed locals.

Certainly those in the mood for hard - hitting docudrama about investigative journalism and its ethical tradeoffs, combining elements of «All the President's Men» and «The Year of Living Dangerously,» will also get their fix from «The Insider.»

The movie's tonal gear - shifts from docudrama to comic drama and back again are elegant, but it's a bit of a cold shower to go from the effervescence of Goodman and Arkin's Mutt and Jeff act to scenes dominated by the Embassy Six, who are by historical definition pretty drippy company.

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Music Within (R for profanity, sexual reference and drug use) Docudrama chronicles the true story of Richard Pimentel (Ron Livingston) a severely hearing - impaired Vietnam vet who returns from the war to dedicate his life to speaking out on behalf of Americans with disabilities.

This inventive, episodic indie about a Senegalese immigrant employed as a Seattle bike cop suggested interesting things to come from Devor, who proceeded to make an avant - garde docudrama about a man fucked to death by a horse.

Critics Consensus: In Cold Blood is a classic docudrama with a fictional thriller's grip — and a pair of terrific lead performances from Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.

Critic Consensus: In Cold Blood is a classic docudrama with a fictional thriller's grip — and a pair of terrific lead performances from Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.

The 10 - hour / five - part docudrama is created and executive produced by Mark Burnett (The Voice, Survivor) and Roma Downey (Touched by an Angel) and will cover the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, including stories from Noah's Ark and the Exodus to Daniel in the Lion's Den to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.

However, even they are sure to walk away from the theater unsatisfied with a movie that noticeably lacks the only real ingredient these affirmational Young Adult docudramas need to be successful: the slightest hint of sincerity.

In a major upset, the Italian docudrama Caesar Must Die from directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani has won the Golden Bear for best film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.

The movie aspires to a tone not far from Paul Greengrass» excellent 9/11 docudrama United 93, only without anywhere near such devotion to official facts and records.

Steely - eyed ingenue Tessa Thompson has been on the rise, jumping from the acclaimed indie comedy Dear White People to a supporting role in the sensational docudrama Selma.

These are the fundamental human rights questions posed by this super-realistic docudrama which takes a long look at ethnic cleansing from both the perspective of the cleansed and from the point - of - view of the perpetrators of the crimes against humanity.

Based on the infamous 1969 incident in which a young woman drowned after a probably - drunk Sen. Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge into a pond, «Chappaquiddick» is unusual for a docudrama in that its point of view is different from its main character's.

In the alternate moral universe of the Pusher trilogy, a micro-epic docudrama about the Copenhagen drug scene from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, Frank (Kim Bodnia), the lowly dope dealer in the series» first entry, is correct: He didn't do anything wrong.

The downside is that the docudrama approach actually takes away from what should have been the key aspects of the story.

O'Connell delivers another «intense and committed performance,» but it's just as impressive a showcase for Demange, who combines gritty docudrama camerawork, razor - sharp editing and a curious kind of impressionism, brilliantly executing a very strong script from Gregory Burke that doesn't «skirt its issues... instead it explodes them to reveal a deeper, wider truth.»

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Documentary Relates True Story of the Great Debaters A year ago, Denzel Washington directed and co-starred in The Great Debaters, a compelling, if fanciful docudrama which recounted how a debate team from an unheralded, Southern black college had traveled in 1935 from Texas to Cambridge, Massachusetts to defeat Harvard and win the national championship in a competition aired live, coast to coast, on national radio.