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== Film ==
* ''[[Mondo Cane]]'', and, in general, any
* ''[[What the Bleep Do We Know]]'': The constant [[Artistic License Physics|misrepresentation of the laws of physics]] (''especially'' [[Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything|quantum physics]]) is ''unbearable''. Not surprising, since the whole thing was produced as [http://www.rickross.com/groups/ramtha.html a giant promo for J.Z. Knight's Ramtha cult]. Additionally, the film selectively edited an interview with Columbia University physics professor David Albert in order to make it appear that Albert endorsed its claims, when he had actually spent four hours explaining why they were wrong.
* Back in [[The Fifties]], [[Disney]] made their ''True Life Adventure'' [[Nature Documentary|nature documentaries]], complete with a neat disclaimer declaring that they depicted nature untouched by human hands. They were all staged and faked, of course, with a pompous narration full of erroneous "facts." Most infamously, the 1958 installment ''White Wilderness'' (about the Arctic, but actually filmed in southern Canada) helped perpetuate the myth of lemming suicide. The filmmakers achieved this by actually herding lemmings (purchased, as they were non-native to the area) off the edge of a cliff! It's a cross-species snuff film... that won an Academy Award.
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*** But while some of the most blatant things about the documentary are seriously hard to believe (like all those phone calls proving everything the author had to say about 9/11), some parts are backed-up by evidence. It's just the whole tone of "Revolutionary Documentary" that makes some people feel so bullshit'd.
** The second sequel, ''Moving Forward'' puts more of a spotlight on Peter Joseph's purported solutions to the "issues" brought up in the previous ''Zeitgeist'' movies. While feigning to be more constructive and reliant on talking heads, the end result is [[Utopia Justifies the Means|at best wishful thinking and at worst, deceptively manipulative if not totalitarian]]. All the while using "critical thinking" as a cop-out from ''actual'' critical thinking.
* In a rare invoked example, ''Las Hurdes'' by [[Luis Bunuel]] falls halfway between this trope and [[Mockumentary]]. He did actually go to poor areas of Spain to shoot and was addressing real social issues, but some events appear to have been staged or restaged and at least a few of the statements made by the [[Unreliable Narrator]] are [[Blatant Lies]]. How much is true and how much isn't is just part of a surrealist package.
* Western Fuels association produced a documentary called ''[[The Greening Of Planet Earth]]'', touted as "A professionally produced documentary that examines the beneficial effects of carbon dioxide, including increased crop yields and vegetative growth."
* [[wikipedia:The Money Masters|The Money Masters]] contains what is an essentially accurate description of how money is created and destroyed by fractional reserve banking, but the filmmakers also draw some rather strange conclusions about the process, present various conspiracy theories involving bankers, and end by suggesting an extremely unorthodox "solution" to the problems they think are present in the modern monetary system.
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