a technique of documentary filmmaking in which the camera records actual persons and events without directorial control: introduced in France in the 1950s.
2.
a film using this technique or a simulation of it.
Origin: 1960–65; < French cinéma-vérité literally, cinema-truth, coined as a translation of Russian kinoprávda, a documentary technique developed by the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896–1954)