Documentaries can be defined as nonfiction films that provide factual records or reports. Because we understand documentaries to do just that we the viewers, put much more trust into a documentary than we do a fiction film.
As we view a documentary, we believe that what we are seeing is a reality. We are still free to question the facts they present or the angle they present them with. However, there is still an automatic sense of faith we put in the filmmaker, believing that they are providing us the truth.
Throughout good documentaries, the filmmakers take advantage of our automatic belief and continue to grow our trust by appealing to our emotions, ethics, and logic to show and teach us or provide new insights and information about something we might not understand.
Through documentaries, we get to examine areas of our society that we do not often look at. Documentaries can help us to understand dark areas of history and society that most people ignore. They help us to form opinions and become more educated about our world. Most importantly, documentaries have the power to light a fire within us and drive us to stand for what is right – ultimately affecting our society.
I want to dissect a few documentaries that have been extremely powerful to me, and that I have seen be powerful to our society. My goal is to better understand their messages while deepening our sense of why they are so incredibly influential. Throughout this {essay, website, blog, whatever you choose to call it} I hope I am able to increase your passions regarding these important societal topics while drawing clear lines of connection that allow us to understand what gives them the ability to incite such societal change through their story telling.
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