Sentence:  Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries , art <WSD>films</WSD> , 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 novel , or the short story . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement