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 Would like your opinion, please 
		
		
		Would you consider a documentary to be a movie or a TV show? 
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 Depends on where it was first released. 
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 Movie. 
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 Its a film/ movie/ motion picture.... Sometimes films are created for TV. 
	EDIT: Documentaries make for good TV shows. ::wink::  | 
		
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 A movie or miniseries. I consider a TV show something ongoing 
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 It can be both.  Fahrenheit 9/11, for example, would be a movie, while America The Story of Us would be a T.V. show (under mini-series).  The Universe would qualify as an actual T.V. show as it is recurrent, though it is a documentary. 
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 I appreciate all the input! 
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 There are documentary films made for Nat Geo, Animal Planet, Discovery, History Channel, etc., which are purely made-for-TV. 
	Then there are those which were made for theatrical release and became successful, such as Fahrenheit 9/11, March of the Penguins, An Inconvenient Truth, etc. Documentaries are basically non-fiction films which document aspects of realities from either day-to-day life or historical/biological aspects. It is basically a film medium, broadly categorised in the manner of release - either as a TV show/series, or as a movie.  | 
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