Sentence:  Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries , art films , and travelogues , despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama , the movies are at heart a form of fiction , like the play , the <WSD>novel</WSD> , or the short story . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story