20 Documentaries That Were Basically Fiction

With reality TV polluting the airwaves as well as the stream, it’s no surprise that documentaries have flooded ever faster into the “New on Netflix” bar. Sometimes, however, those so-called documentaries are even less real than reality TV. We’re not talking creative editing and narrative streamlining — these are straight-up lies.

“Super Size Me is the obligatory example,” user Animeking1108 told r/AskReddit. “Morgan Spurlock conveniently left out the part about him being an alcoholic and a vegan when he started his experiment,” meaning his results were completely skewed. 

They then asked, “What documentary was proven to be full of crap?” and a tidal wave of docu-crap followed.