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1935's Triumph of the Will is a documentary. It documents the 1934 Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. It is also pro-Nazi Party propaganda. A film can be a docu
by philipkglass 8y ago
1935's Triumph of the Will is a documentary. It documents the 1934 Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. It is also pro-Nazi Party propaganda. A film can be a documentary and advocate for a certain agenda. These dual-purpose films existed long before the late 1980s.
I believe that most documentaries do advocate something. Documentarians adhering to Wikipedia-like NPOV rules of presentation are rarer than other sorts.
- DanielBMarkham 8y agoWell heck, Birth of a Nation was probably considered as a documentary too when it was shot -- along with a lot of war movies. My larger point was that to produce anything for the public, it must be simplified. That always requires bias. Satire has stopped being entertainment and instead is a way to simplify things. We tell a joke in lieu of explaining something. (As the old documentaries were supposed to do: explain something) Once satire takes on that role, it's always going to be misinformation to some degree or another.