Documentaries

After our disscussion, I am second guessing the truth in documentaries. Some relevant points were cut out. I feel this is unfair to the audience because they only see one side of the objective and not the other. I think documentaries would be more liked if both sides of the situation were told, this way the viewer could decide for themselves what they believe. This also leads to my distrust in other media forms because in order for the producer to keep the audiences attention, they lie and can be biased. Now I feel I can't trust everything I see without first hand proof to back up the statement. I don't want to feel so negative about documentaries because I like to watch them and find out facts but if I know they leave out important info, that could swing the opinion another way, then I would rather do my own research. Documentaries are supposed to document the truth about major events, but if they leave out info that happened during the event, I don't consider it a documentary anymore. I see documentaries as a way to learn about the past, not a way to create a bias.