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This Year’s Biggest Documentaries Are a Liberal’s Nightmare

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70% Informative

The list of this year ’s top-grossing docs is a hodgepodge of faith-oriented films, a movie in praise of Donald Trump , and glorified trolls.

At the very top, where Anthony Bourdain and David Bowie once perched, you’ll find Am I Racist? The vast gap between prestige-style documentaries and what actually charts at the box office these days is fairly new.

The Ark and the Darkness is being counted as the fifth -highest-grossing documentary of the year .

Documentarians have avoided documentaries as a “non-profit’s essential value proposition,” says Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing .

Documentary director Chris Metzler says streaming is more passive than one you see on a huge screen.

Am I Racist? is proof that there still is a theatrical audience for docs akin to the one that existed in the 1990s , just with a different set of values.

Director-producer: "A lot of the techniques Matt was using were pioneered by the left, but the left’s skills at this sort of work have atrophied from success.

VR Score

63

Informative language

55

Neutral language

43

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

43

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

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short-lived

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