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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Camilla?

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Camilla? was an episode of the 2009 documentary drama The Queen which aired on Channel 4.


A Day in the Death of Donny B

A Day in the Death of Donny B is a 1969 American short docudrama written and directed by Carl Fick and shot in cinéma-vérité style.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

She contended that the 1999 TV movie Selma, Lord, Selma, a docudrama based on a book written by two young participants in Bloody Sunday, falsely depicted her as a stereotypical "black Mammy" whose key role was to "make religious utterances and to participate in singing spirituals and protest songs."

Anthony Flanagan

Flanagan appeared in the BBC TV docudrama Heroes and Villains as Spartacus, first broadcast in 2008.

Arrest and Trial

Arrest & Trial (2000) – syndicated docudrama series also produced by Wolf

Berardo Carboni

Together with Favaretto, he also worked in 2003 on the TV movie Buco Nell'Acqua, a docudrama with Sandra Milo, produced by Kublakhan for Mediatrade.

Concealed Enemies

Concealed Enemies is an American television docudrama of the events leading to the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of former U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss.

Eric O'Neill

O'Neill is played by Ryan Phillippe in the 2007 docudrama thriller Breach, which depicts O'Neill's role in the investigation and capture of Hanssen.

Ernst A. Lehmann

In the 2007 docudrama Hindenburg: The Untold Story, Polish actor Aleksander Trabczynski portrayed Lehmann.

FBI Files

The FBI Files, American television docudrama series (1998–2006)

Frank Crowe

The Hoover Dam construction project and Frank Crowe's role (portrayed by actor Jay Benedict) was dramatised in an episode of the BBC's 2003 docudrama television miniseries Seven Wonders of the Industrial World.

Franz Fuchs

In 2007, the criminal case was portrayed in the docudrama Franz Fuchs - Ein Patriot, the role of Franz Fuchs was played by Austrian Karl Markovics.

Garnier de Nablus

Actor Donald Sumpter portrays Garnier in the 2008 BBC TV docudrama series Heroes and Villains which features a reenactment of the battle at Arsuf.

Geylang

Pleasure Factory, a 2007 Singaporean-Thai docudrama film was set in Geylang.

Hortal

Hortal is a Bangladeshi political docudrama that centers around political unrest in Bangladesh and the daily lives of three journalists.

Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai

The popularity of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai is not limited to Japan, in the Episode "Freshman Fear" of the A&E docu-drama reality television series Paranormal State, members of Penn State Paranormal Research Society play the Ancient Japanese Game of One Hundred Candles during their investigation of a supposed haunting in a student dormitory.

Jack Watling

In 1958 he played Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall in the critically acclaimed docudrama A Night To Remember.

Johnny Harra

He began impersonating Elvis at the age of 11 and was cast as the 42 year old Elvis in the 1981 docudrama This Is Elvis.

Keith Payne

Payne was interviewed for the 2006 television docudrama Victoria Cross Heroes which also included archive footage and dramatisations of his actions.

Leslie Woodhead

Woodhead was among the first exponents of docudrama, a format which allowed him to explore daily life of those "behind the wall" during the Cold War, when journalists had little direct access.

Linda Peeno

In the 2002 Showtime docudrama Damaged Care, Laura Dern portrayed Peeno as she transitioned from health care industry employee to whistleblower.

Louis Marks

Marks' producer credits include The Lost Boys (1978), Fearless Frank (1979), the BBC's adaptation of the Three Theban plays (between 1984 and 1986), and the BBC's adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch (1994).

Malcolm Tierney

In 2007 he played Dr. Hugo Eckener in the docudrama Hindenburg: The Untold Story, which was about the crash of the airship Hindenburg and the investigation after it.

In 2008 he played Captain Smith of the RMS Titanic, in the docudrama Titanic: The Unsinkable Ship.

More4

On its first night, the channel led with the satirical docudrama A Very Social Secretary about the affair between David Blunkett, the former British Home Secretary, and Kimberly Quinn.

Murder of Leigh Matthews

In July 2012, the murder was covered in two episodes of the M-Net Crimes Uncovered crime docu-drama television series titled A Family's Nightmare Begins: The Leigh Matthews Story (Part 1) and A Web of Lies: The Leigh Matthews Story (Part 2).

My Lai Massacre

In 1975, Stanley Kramer and Lee Bernhard directed a docudrama Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley with Tony Musante as Lieutenant Calley, and Harrison Ford as Frank Crowder.

Natalie J. Robb

She made her screen debut as a nine-year-old starring in an STV docudrama with veteran Scots star Tom Conti.

Nicholas Pinnock

Pinnock portrayed a young Nelson Mandela in the ITV docudrama Mandela: The Prison Years, which aired on 15 December 2013, the day Mandela was buried.

Operation Paget

The script for the 2007 television docudrama Diana: Last Days of a Princess borrowed heavily from testimony in the Paget report.

Patty Jenkins

The most famous film she has directed to date is Monster, a docudrama about Aileen Wuornos.

Paul Atherton

In 2005 his first production Silent Voices a docudrama about domestic violence premiered on British Television.

Pelin Bekiroğlu

In 2012, she was signed up to appear in the popular TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl ("Magnificent Century"), a docudrama annex soap opera around the life of sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

Pest house

Death or Canada, a Canada-Irish docudrama partly set in fever sheds in Canada

Port Fourchon, Louisiana

In an odd twist of fate, FX Networks broadcast on June 7, 2005 the docudrama Oil Storm, which first depicted a fictional Category 4 hurricane named "Julia" hitting Port Fourchon in September 2005.

Preah Suramarit National Theatre

Filmmaker Rithy Panh's 2005 docudrama, The Burnt Theatre, is set in the remains of the theatre, and depicts a theatre troupe struggling to practice their art and keep fine arts alive in Cambodia.

Psychic driving

The topic of psychic driving is dealt with in some detail in the docudrama entitled The Sleep Room (1998) directed by Anne Wheeler.

Rel Hunt

Rel Hunt, an Australian actor, played Angus in Macbeth, an updated modern version of the Shakespeare play and portrayed Al Corley in the fictionalized 2005 American television movie/docudrama Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, based on the creation and behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty.

Rick Warden

He is probably best known for his appearances in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers as 1st Lt. Harry Welsh, the BBC docudrama Dunkirk as Major Phillip Newman RAMC, and the HBO/BBC2 historical drama, Rome, as Quintus Valerius Pompey.

Royal Scandal

A Royal Scandal, 1996 British television docudrama on the ill-fated marriage of George IV and Duchess Caroline of Brunswick

Sanna Persson

Persson has also played serious roles, including in, Jan Troell's "Så vit som en snö", a production of Joyce Carol Oates's play Naked and the docudrama "Hjärtats oro" about Hjalmar Bergman.

Sebastian Koch

His breakthrough roles came in 2001 with the portrayal of the kidnapped Richard Oetker (son of industrialist Rudolf August Oetker) in Dance with the Devil – The Kidnapping of Richard Oetker, and of the writer Klaus Mann in Heinrich Breloer's docudrama The Manns – A Novel of the Century.

Steff Gruber

Steff Gruber started work on his first long film, the docudrama Moon in Taurus, in Georgia in 1976.

Terry McDonough

In January 2013 he was announced as the director of the forthcoming BBC docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time, depicting the creation of the iconic British science-fiction series Doctor Who.

That Summer Day

That Summer Day is a one-hour docudrama directed by Jon East, written by Clive Bradley (who also wrote Last Rights), produced by Hannah Pescod and executive produced by Jon East and Mark Redhead that provides a fictional account of the lives of six children on the day of the bombings of the London public transport system on 7 July 2005.

The Shadow of a Mine

Using a docudrama format, the film hightlights the hardships faced by Silesian coal miners in Waldenburg.

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

The film is a docudrama about the confrontation between the Weaver family and the US federal government at Ruby Ridge in 1992, as well as the events leading up to it.

Vermont Is for Lovers

Vermont is for Lovers is an independently produced docudrama released in 1992, starring George Thrush and Marya Cohn and shot on location Tunbridge, Vermont.

Voice of God

Reed Hadley, narrator of numerous "docudrama" feature films and television programs


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