dramatization

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In addition to the film’s dramatization of the fraught emergency call, Ben Hania included an epilogue documenting Hind’s heartbreaking fate.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

The intent is a kind of re-creation, or dramatization, of Cleopatra’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Although the movie is a Hollywood dramatization of what actually happened during the 2008 financial crisis, Saluzzi made an analogy to this scene and said it may be how financial institutions are now thinking.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 11, 2025

Adapting the book was “one of the most difficult challenges I’ve ever had as a writer,” said Zetumer, whose credits include “Patriots Day,” a dramatization of the 2013 Boston marathon bombings.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024

The dramatization of slavery never failed intensely to arouse Negroes hearing its honors spelled out for the first time.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey