Documentaries, whether
you know it or not, can influence the way you act or live your life. They
strive to make change in a society or reveal what’s going on in the world with
things such as the environment, or the ocean, for example. The objective of
documentaries can be informative, and they can fall under informative bias, or
informative unbiased. Documentaries can be informative yet biased in the sense
that you’re given facts, statistics, but it’s all for what the creator
believes. Or unbiased since some documentaries have no words and just show
clips and montages. Here are a couple documentaries that fall under informative
biased, and some that are informative unbiased.
- Informative and Biased Documentaries:
- Blackfish (2013): This documentary is about the controversy surrounding people hunting and capturing killer whales, and goes further by showing how humans use these killer whales for their own enjoyment, even though people know it's causing pain to the whales.
- reasons why it's biased: The documenter, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, is trying to promote awareness to what's going on with our killer whales and the people that are capturing them. She wants people to not support the capturing of whales by not going to amusement parks such as SeaWorld.
- Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014): Cowspiracy is about a man by the name of Kip Andersen, also the documentor, who realizes that his effort to save water by taking shorter showers, biked everywhere, recycled, and did what any good environmentalist would do, was not making a difference compared to the water being wasted from the mass-production of meat.
- reasons why it's biased: Kip Anderson is said to be a vegan, and he's imposing this guilt onto meat-eaters by revealing facts and statistics about the terrible things animals have to go through in order for a meat-eater to have their meal.
- Informative and Unbiased Documentaries:
- Blue Planet: Natural History of the Oceans (2001): This documentary is a TV Mini-Series with 8 episodes, and the documenter just shows clips of the ocean and montages of sea life with no words, just background music so the audience can interpret it the way they want.
- Reasons why it's unbiased: There are no words, it's just background music. The creator isn't trying to impose an idea onto you, it's purely for entertainment.
- Honey Badgers: Master of Mayhem (2014): This documentary is a 52 minute video on honey badgers and just gives the audience facts about it, such as being ruthless by eating snakes, bee hives, trash, and are able to fight lions, and fight off buffalo.
- Reasons why it's unbiased: They're just informing the viewers on honey badgers, they're not asking the viewers to help support honey badgers by donating, or anything, they're simply just informing the audience on the animal.
Whether you watch a documentary just because you're bored and it's on your Netflix suggested page, or you're really intrigued, it will almost always be informative and biased, or informative and unbiased. These are a good start for people who want to begin watching documentaries since the list includes some really persuasive ones to impact change on a society, and the latter half just for your viewing pleasure. What are your go-to documentaries?
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