6 Famous Documentaries That Were Shockingly Full of Crap

[Dr. Strange]

#6. Super Size Me -- Nobody Can Replicate the Results
#5. Waiting for "Superman" -- Charter Schools Kind of Suck, Too
#4. Religulous -- The "Jesus Is Fake" Evidence Is Fake
#3. Searching for Sugar Man -- Sugar Man Was Touring, Shooting Up the Charts in the '80s
#2. Winged Migration -- A Study of Editing Trickery and Trained Birds
#1. Nanook of the North -- An Amazing Achievement in Utter Bullshit

http://www.cracked.com/article_20585_6-famous-documentaries-that-were-shockingly-full-crap.html

Some interesting reading.

[AZ Progressive]

1. What about Zeitgeist?

That documentary is pure bullshit and has brainwashed so many people.

[GalaxyHunter]

2. I agree with you on so many levels!!

[AZ Progressive]

3. Zeitgeist literally is a virtual mind snatcher

It turns people into crazed conspiracy nuts of the Alex Jones level.

[GalaxyHunter]

4. that it does!

I have a friend in Germany who was an exchange student when I was in high school(7 years ago) and about 3 years ago he sent me a video of zeitgeist and how he can finally "see" because of it.


I didn't fall into that trap. He has gotten worse each year.

[RZM]

5. It's actually mentioned in the Cracked article

I'd say 'crapumentary' is a better description.

[SidDithers]

10. Could throw "Loose Change" in there too...

The "documentary" that started the truther movement.

Sid

[zappaman]

11. +1000! n/t

[cascadiance]

6. What about "2016: Obama's America"?

Right wing propaganda at least didn't get "swallowed" by the academy the way "Waiting for Superman" was...

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/12/07/hit-anti-obama-documentary-2016-snubbed-by-academy-awards/

[Dr. Strange]

7. I think the key word in the title is "Shockingly".

That 2016 is full of crap isn't terribly shocking.

[cascadiance]

8. Point taken!

And I'm sure we could find many others that would fall under the 2016 mode too...

[progressoid]

9. Hmm...

some of the counter arguments are also full of crap. Or at least, a stretch.

He links to a book debunking The DaVinci Code? Bullshit citing bullshit to debunk bullshit.

[MisterP]

14. the DaVinci Code's accurate?

[RebelOne]

19. I would say no as it was a book of fiction. n/t

[LearningCurve]

12. For me, the most damning one was Religulous

It was at that point, the "documentary" committed one of the very sins it had been out to expose.

[duffyduff]

13. I have the DVD of "Nanook of the North" and knew it was fictionalized,

but I never knew the messy affair that went on with Flaherty and the leading actress in the film, to say nothing of other women.

[X_Digger]

15. Damn you cracked.com- another hour wasted clicking links! n/t

[Dr. Strange]

16. It's one of the most entertaining black holes on the internet, isn't it?

[X_Digger]

17. That, break.com, and wimp.com and I'd never get any work done. n/t

[Jose78]

18. More lies from the anti-Zeitgeist cult

Last edited Fri Jun 13, 2014, 11:28 AM - Edit history (1)

This article is a disaster. The parts about 'Religulous' and 'Zeitgeist' have been responded to:

Cracked.com's shockingly crappy article about 'Religulous' and 'Zeitgeist'

Shockingly crappy article about 'Religulous' and 'Zeitgeist'

Primary sources and scholar commentary on them support ZG1:

Sourcebook
http://stellarhousepublishing.com/zeitgeistsourcebook.pdf

Primary Sources & Scholars cited in the ZG1 Sourcebook
http://www.truthbeknown.com/zeitgeistsources.html

Rebuttal to Dr. Chris Forbes
http://truthbeknown.com/chrisforbeszeitgeist.html

Zeitgeist Part 1
http://freethoughtnation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2997

Scholars and others who have actually read her work are supportive of it:

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http://www.freethoughtnation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1959

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