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  2. Social problem film - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps the most notable instance of the idea of real-life insertions is the opening scene of Border Incident (1949), a social problem film about Mexican immigration following the instituting of the Bracero Program in 1942 meant to alleviate the shortage of farm-hand work in the United States. The film opens with a flyover shot of farmland as ...

  3. Docufiction - Wikipedia

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    Docufiction (or docu-fiction) is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film. It is a film genre [ 1 ] which attempts to capture reality such as it is (as direct cinema or cinéma vérité ) and which simultaneously introduces unreal elements or fictional situations in narrative in order to ...

  4. List of stories set in a future now in the past - Wikipedia

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    Set during the events of Half-Life. Hardware: Film 1990 2000 Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth devastated by nuclear war. A scavenger discovers the head of a cyborg in the desert, and it later reanimates and goes on a murderous rampage. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man: Film 1991 1996 A new designer drug, crystal dream, is in common use.

  5. List of 1990s films based on actual events - Wikipedia

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    29th Street (1991) – comedy drama film based on the true-life story of actor Frank Pesce, who won the first New York State Lottery in 1976 [84]; A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) – biographical drama television film recounting the life of Ricky Bell, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back sickened with dermatomyositis, and Ryan Blankenship, a physically impaired child [85]

  6. Anti-union violence in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Union organizer Frank Little was pulled from his bed and lynched in 1917 because of his union activities.. Historically, violence against unions has included attacks by detective and guard agencies, such as the Pinkertons, Baldwin Felts, Burns, or Thiel detective agencies; citizens groups, such as the Citizens' Alliance; company guards; police; national guard; or even the military.

  7. Documentary film techniques - Wikipedia

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    Actuality is the term for raw film footage of real life events, places and people as opposed to fictional films which use actors, scripted stories and artificial sets. Documentaries are not pure actuality films - rather they combine actuality with explanation, commentary, and perhaps even dramatization...

  8. Political fiction - Wikipedia

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    Political fiction employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories. Works of political fiction, such as political novels, often "directly criticize an existing society or present an alternative, even fantastic, reality". [1] The political novel overlaps with the social novel, proletarian novel, and social science fiction.

  9. Fiction - Wikipedia

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    The use of real events or real individuals as direct inspiration for imaginary events or imaginary individuals is known as fictionalization. The opposite circumstance, in which the physical world or a real turn of events seem influenced by past fiction, is commonly described by the phrase "life imitating art".