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In a sense, all TV shows, plays, films, etc., are costume dramas because actors always wear special clothes from the Wardrobe Department, never their own clothes. However, the term 'costume drama' refers to a play or film set in an earlier time such as the 1860s (for example, Gone with the Wind) or the 1500s (e.g. Macbeth). Nowadays it would mean even a wartime drama set in the 1940s or a film about JFK set in 1963. As far as I know, you would NOT use the term to mean a film actually made in the 1940s, though, because the actors are wearing the clothes current at that time.

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