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The film has been criticized by many for its fictionalization of history.

What's remarkable is how much fictionalization plays a role in almost every national debate.

I did cast a thin veil of fictionalization over it.

He said that the fictionalization, rather than disturbing him, "makes me more relaxed, in a way."

The film is described as a "fictionalization", rather than a straight adaptation.

It differs in many ways from the book, starting with the fictionalization of the material into a "story".

His fictionalization is, he said, "a lie of a life, but it's the only life I can give back to this man."

The English Patient is a fictionalization of his career.

However, Werfel was not above fictionalization to fill in details or romanticize her story.

The novel also includes a fictionalization of the Martin Guerre story.

But the second describes a process - the fictionalization of fact - that took a quantum leap with television docudramas.

His first novel, Mafia Summer, is a fictionalization of factual organized crime.

He hoped that the fictionalization of a current events story allowed for an objective look at the issues, rather than being blinded by personal bias.

Diary notes, interviews and the description of experience remain a fictionalization of the described events.

But Mr. Lishman doesn't feel slighted by the fictionalization of his story.

A 2002 fictionalization of the disaster recounted:

Oddly enough, none of these family members who figure so prominently in Louisa's novel really object to her fictionalization of their lives.

Mavrino is a fictionalization of the camp where Solzhenitsyn served his sentence, Marfino.

The techniques of telling stories within stories, partial fictionalization, and purposeful linguistic ambiguity are all apparent.

Critics comment on the fictionalization of the story of Rosewood, that it "assumes a lot and then makes up a lot more".

Finally, one could ask whether the kind of fictionalization practiced in the history movies is desirable even to satisfy the needs of cinematic dramatization.

His essential premise put forth the notion that the "fictionalization" aspect of privacy law did not harm freedom of expression.

The story has strong parallels to Kierkegaard's relationship to Regine, and has often been taken to be a fictionalization of it.

The Homecoming saga is a fictionalization of the first few hundred years recorded in the Book of Mormon.

This book is a fictionalization of the unsuccessful efforts of the local Jews to prevent their expulsion from Vienna (in 1670).

Contemporary American literature also show attempts at fictionalisation of the David narrative.

That is consistent with most of Platt's books, except for the first-person fictionalisation.

The degree of fictionalisation in these works varies and, although they are often written by Christians or Jews, this is not always the case.

The story is a fictionalisation of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo's life.

There was significant fictionalisation, however.

Meinhof's life has been the subject, to varying degrees of fictionalisation, of several films and stage productions.

DANDER: This fictionalisation becomes visible in your works through displacement, unexpected combinations, and misinterpretations of usage.

Rye Harbour is perhaps best known for its fictionalisation as "Westling" in the Romney Marsh children's books of Monica Edwards.

Campbell was consultant to the 2009 production of Margaret, a fictionalisation of Margaret Thatcher's fall from power, and the 2012 film The Iron Lady.

Hudson, J. Francis, 'Rabshakeh' [Lion Publishing 1992] is a fictionalisation of Saul's tragedy.

A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) by Daniel Defoe is a fictionalisation of the events of the 1665 Great Plague.

Blackrock had attracted considerable controversies when it was screened in 1997, partly because of its fictionalisation of a real-life rape and murder without the consent of the victim's family.

The novel is fictionalisation of the period leading up to and shortly after the Coup d'état against and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.

The Independent claimed that the novel, "functions both as an outstanding fictionalisation of Freud's essay The Uncanny, and as a superior literary thriller packed with invention and suspense".

The acclaimed writer, Roald Dahl, wrote the short story 'Skin' (published in The New Yorker on 17 May 1952) which featured a fictionalisation of Chaim Soutine.

The events of this controversy were written into a book by Helen Garner, The First Stone, which itself was embroiled in controversy over bias, its criticism of third wave feminism and fictionalisation of various events and circumstances.

Firstly, Buchloh draws attention to Beuys's fictionalisation of his own biography, which he sees as symptomatic of a dangerous cultural tendency of disavowing a traumatic past and retreating into the realms of myth and esoteric symbolism.

It is a fictionalisation of the life of Margaret Thatcher (played by Lindsay Duncan) and her fall from the premiership in the 1990 leadership election, with flashbacks telling the story of Thatcher's defeat of Edward Heath in the 1975 leadership election.