After last weeks reading, the idea of what ‘fake news’ really is has still been on my mind. Another form of media, which I wonder if could be considered ‘fake news’, is documentary films and TV series. The recent 8 episode Netflix documentary series The Disappearance of Madeline McCann has become unavoidable. I haven’t even watched it yet it feels like I have with their being countless memes about Madeline McCann and her parents appearing all over social media. Yet is the documentary telling the whole truth? Could it be possibly bias or have a particular agenda like certain newspaper and news television shows do? A friend of mine who has seen the documentary series spoke to me about how a lot of documentary creators as well as viewers try and create their own story and view the documentary in a particular way that suits their theory on what happened, in this case to Madeline McCann. From the mass of memes on Facebook it seems the general consensus is that McCann’s parents are guilty of playing a role in their disappearance. But are these viewers and meme creators further contributing to the perhaps bias views of the documentary maker and sharing what could possibly be ‘fake news’. Werner Herzog, who created the 2005 documentary film Grizzly Man has said himself that ‘Besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means ‘feature film’ in disguise’. After taking a class purely focused on the lies documentary films tell the audience, I don’t believe any documentary can be unbiased or completely truthful. I also believe that documentary can therefore be considered ‘fake news’. No the information being presented to might not be completely current or breaking news but documentaries often cover the same subject matters that we see on the news e.g. murders and environmental and humanitarian issues. Whether it is intentional or not, documentaries don’t always tell the entire truth of the subject matter which makes me see no issue with labeling documentary as ‘fake news’.