10 Most Disturbing Documentaries of All Time
This article discusses sensitive topics such as the murder and abuse of children and animals.
Documentary films are informative and entertaining ways to gain more knowledge about a favorite subject or explore completely new topics. They can be good for crash studies of historically significant people and events. And sometimes they can be simply entertaining.
Some documentaries can be hard to watch, either due to the subject matter or the imagery. At times, however, even the most disturbing documentaries can be effective at initiating change. Audiences watching unsettling works of fiction can always fall back on the knowledge that what they’re seeing isn’t real. In the case of documentaries that put the audience in a state of unease, there’s no such comfort.
A Love Story Gone Wrong Leaves a Woman Scarred Crazy Love (2007)
Winner of the 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, Crazy Love tells the salacious...
Documentary films are informative and entertaining ways to gain more knowledge about a favorite subject or explore completely new topics. They can be good for crash studies of historically significant people and events. And sometimes they can be simply entertaining.
Some documentaries can be hard to watch, either due to the subject matter or the imagery. At times, however, even the most disturbing documentaries can be effective at initiating change. Audiences watching unsettling works of fiction can always fall back on the knowledge that what they’re seeing isn’t real. In the case of documentaries that put the audience in a state of unease, there’s no such comfort.
A Love Story Gone Wrong Leaves a Woman Scarred Crazy Love (2007)
Winner of the 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, Crazy Love tells the salacious...
- 12/6/2024
- by Matthew Flynn
- CBR
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