Your Favourite Docu-Drama

[Hornspieler]

You may only choose one. They can come from any TV or Radio Channel. (But not from the Movie Industry)

I will start the ball rolling with my choice:

"Goodnight, Uncle Tom" starring the late John Thaw. (aka Inspector Morse)

HS

[Honoured Guest]

Big Brother (Endemol)

[Hornspieler]

You may only choose one. They can come from any TV or Radio Channel. (But not from the Movie Industry)

I will start the ball rolling with my choice:

"Goodnight, Uncle Tom" starring the late John Thaw. (aka Inspector Morse)

HS

Sorry, Salymap.

I did try to keep your lists going, but presumably nobody is interested.

As I am neither for nor against apathy, I will leave this thread to fade into oblivion.

HS

[Richard Tarleton]

May have been a category problem, HS - I was scratching my head as docu-dramas are normally based on fact, whereas your choice a straightforward drama? Something like this rates as one of the great television docu-dramas.

And a pity to exclude film - in this bicentenary year, Sergei Bondarchuk's Waterloo is one of the glories of the big screen

[Sir Velo]

It always seems like the Daily Express of television genres.

[Petrushka]

Band of Brothers for me remains unsurpassed. Does it count as a docu-drama as it was a series?

[antongould]

Band of Brothers for me remains unsurpassed. Does it count as a docu-drama as it was a series?

Yes what do we define as a docu-drama?

[MrGongGong]

Yes what do we define as a docu-drama?

http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/guillaume-tell-by-damiano-michieletto

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes what do we define as a docu-drama?

I think the 'industry' description is "factual drama" and one of the great exponents at the moment is screenwriter Jeff Pope. His two parter about Lord Lucan was very good I thought.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/from-fred-west-to-lord-lucan-jeff-pope-is-the-man-who-outs-the-truth-8973324.html

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think the 'industry' description is "factual drama" and one of the great exponents at the moment is screenwriter Jeff Pope. His two parter about Lord Lucan was very good I thought.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...h-8973324.html

I thought that "Docu-Dramas" were different from "Factual dramas". Docu-dramas are like the recent three-parter about the Armada - Dan Snow doing the commentary with interviews with historical authorities, interspersed with actors performing a costume drama based (loosely) on contemporary accounts?

[ardcarp]

No idea whether it's a docu-drama or not but Mike Walker's The Stuarts currently being serialised on R4 is IMO excellent.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036f9v7/episodes/guide

[Hornspieler]

May have been a category problem, HS - I was scratching my head as docu-dramas are normally based on fact, whereas your choice a straightforward drama? Something like this rates as one of the great television docu-dramas.

And a pity to exclude film - in this bicentenary year, Sergei Bondarchuk's Waterloo is one of the glories of the big screen

Sorry about that, Richard.

I called this a docu-drama because it was a TV play about the evacuation of thousands of children in September 1939.

I was one of those evacuees and I was lucky, being boarded with a lovely family in Redhill.
The thing was that our whole school was evacuated - from Croydon, for obvious reasons, but only eight miles down the road to Redhill, where there was also an RAF fighter station!

By Christmas 1939, my parents heard that they were re-opening a school on Beckenham (only 3 miles from Croydon!) so we were moved over there, where we lived all through "The Blitz" of 1941 to 1942. Every house in our road except ours was hit by something - incendary bombs, shrapnel of flying debris.
Imagine the horror for an eight-year-old, bedded down in the cupboard under the stairs, listening for the dreaded throb of those Junkers Jumo engines as the bombers made their nightly appearance.
Well, my father's job was moved to Salisbury in 1942 so at least we left before the V1 Flying Bombs made their appearance.
Just as well, as one of the first hit our Beckenham house and totally destroyed it, killing the nice elderly couple in the house opposite.

For me, a drama written about events that actually happened, unlike the Hollywood version where the good old U S of A saved the civilised world, is a documentary.

Let's list a few more.

HS

[gradus]

1864 the story of the second Dano-Prussian War was first class although perhaps a minority interest here in the UK. That apart I'm having some difficulty coming up with anything recent.

[Nick Armstrong]

I thought that "Docu-Dramas" were different from "Factual dramas". Docu-dramas are like the recent three-parter about the Armada - Dan Snow doing the commentary with interviews with historical authorities, interspersed with actors performing a costume drama based (loosely) on contemporary accounts?

Not sure! Isn't that a 'dramatised documentary' ?

[eighthobstruction]

....Well, if you want Documentary withDrama....look no further than Imagine this week : Beware of Mr Baker....Tues 7th (this week) 2235 BBC1....you may not like the man or the music, but it is a hell of a good film....Oooooh film, ooh sorry OT....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b061y4qk