The Breakfast Club on Documentaries (Gardner, Nick, Torey, Palmer)

Today we discussed the Moreland essay on the past and future of historical documentaries, and determined that today’s filmmakers do not rely on scholarly findings as much as they should. They frequently take the findings way too far and attempt to explain or speculate possibilities that may or may not be true. In the future, documentaries need to better utilize scholarly data, then consider entertainment factor that the filmmakers are always looking for.