20 Documentaries That Were Basically Fiction
Ahhh… ‘Kony 2012’
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.
Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones
What the Bleep Do We Know!?
Waiting for ‘Superman’
2000 Mules
What the Health
Zeitgeist: The Movie
The Murder of Laci Peterson
Nanook of the North
Finding Kendrick Johnson
Root Cause
White Wilderness
Bowling for Columbine
Searching for Sugar Man
Plandemic: The Hidden Agenda Behind Covid-19
Tiger King
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Loose Change
The Secret
Kony 2012
The Curse of Oak Island
