This is a fine doc, but it's obviously not a masterpiece or anything close to that. Even if you fully agree with a message in a doc you are supposed to judge it fairly for how correct it is, how engaging it is, and how illuminating it is. Please remain critical and look at the facts presented instead of just blindly following a movement.
Firstly, I want to tackle the accusation of ideological bias in this doc. Most people in the media industry are very ideological in a very specific and monotone way. This is how the industry looks like overall, not just for this doc. Any single movie or documentary comes with a bias and it's often a very predictable one. This doc is biased in exactly the same direction as most modern Hollywood productions.
The doc does try to make Jan. 6 into a HUGE terrorist insurrection event. Cops died! People got hurt! The Democratic senators here claim Trump was just a step away from becoming a dictator of USA. The secretaries working for the Democrat senators talk about how they could have been molested, killed, tortured, beaten. This doc clearly plays the whole thing up. But these are interviews with people from both sides. Angry cops, politicians from both sides, protestors. The point of view here is that this was a huge event where cops died. Was a random secretary who locked herself in an office close to being molested and killed? Obviously not as she didn't even come in contact with any of the protestors. There was zero chance whatsoever of that happening. There were many women randomly walking around in the Capitol perfectly safe and no one was asking each other about their political beliefs. No civilians were fighting each other at any point. The Proud Boys were very clear that one of their main goals is to protect women. Still the documentary makers decided to include this absolutely insane secretary interview. Was Trump close to becoming a dictator? Also no. I get they want to claim all of this to make the documentary seem important, but it's ideological and political spin. In this doc we even see Democrat senators on the day say that nothing much happened. So how did the documentary spin it into some huge coup attempt with murder, potential molestation, and a potential dictator? Whatever this documentary is you can still be critical and try to look at it fairly. The lies are coming from both sides here. Biased docs like this are very uncritical of what is said in the misleading interviews. The only person who died that day was a female protestor who got shot by a guard. That's it. The loose documentary claim about cops dying in the protest is totally false. The documentary makers should be ashamed of trying to sell this idea. But I don't know why they did that? Is this political propaganda or just them trying to make this into something huge it never was to sell a story?
Overall I think it's a fun watch. Yeah, it's biased... obviously. That's just expected. But they don't use a biased voiceover. It's just interviews and scenes. The people who lie about cops dying there on the day unfortunately get the only point of view on that part of the story. There is no critical professor or journalist explaining why many statements in this doc are lies and ideological spin. But we mainly need to blame the people interviewed here. The cop wives are obviously angry and sad. They won't be giving neutral interviews at any point. The cops at the scene, who voted for Biden, won't be neutral either. If you are critical you will understand they are lying and you'll try to look past their claims.
Even though this is a biased documentary I still recommend it. It's just a fun watch. Just don't believe what is said here. It's not all true. Read up on the story in different media, both left and right. And ignore old sources. NYT and Washington Post had a ton of fake news stories about cops being beaten to death and other fake made-up events. This never happened and they later retracted all those claims. Zero cops were beaten to death or killed in any way. The misinformation flow is extreme. But what can I do? I want to watch the events of the day on screen and it's not like I have a ton of neutral documentaries to pick from on this topic. It's either this or other way more biased stuff made by extremely biased sources. So yeah, I recommend it. It's not ideal or amazing. But it is super fun.
Firstly, I want to tackle the accusation of ideological bias in this doc. Most people in the media industry are very ideological in a very specific and monotone way. This is how the industry looks like overall, not just for this doc. Any single movie or documentary comes with a bias and it's often a very predictable one. This doc is biased in exactly the same direction as most modern Hollywood productions.
The doc does try to make Jan. 6 into a HUGE terrorist insurrection event. Cops died! People got hurt! The Democratic senators here claim Trump was just a step away from becoming a dictator of USA. The secretaries working for the Democrat senators talk about how they could have been molested, killed, tortured, beaten. This doc clearly plays the whole thing up. But these are interviews with people from both sides. Angry cops, politicians from both sides, protestors. The point of view here is that this was a huge event where cops died. Was a random secretary who locked herself in an office close to being molested and killed? Obviously not as she didn't even come in contact with any of the protestors. There was zero chance whatsoever of that happening. There were many women randomly walking around in the Capitol perfectly safe and no one was asking each other about their political beliefs. No civilians were fighting each other at any point. The Proud Boys were very clear that one of their main goals is to protect women. Still the documentary makers decided to include this absolutely insane secretary interview. Was Trump close to becoming a dictator? Also no. I get they want to claim all of this to make the documentary seem important, but it's ideological and political spin. In this doc we even see Democrat senators on the day say that nothing much happened. So how did the documentary spin it into some huge coup attempt with murder, potential molestation, and a potential dictator? Whatever this documentary is you can still be critical and try to look at it fairly. The lies are coming from both sides here. Biased docs like this are very uncritical of what is said in the misleading interviews. The only person who died that day was a female protestor who got shot by a guard. That's it. The loose documentary claim about cops dying in the protest is totally false. The documentary makers should be ashamed of trying to sell this idea. But I don't know why they did that? Is this political propaganda or just them trying to make this into something huge it never was to sell a story?
Overall I think it's a fun watch. Yeah, it's biased... obviously. That's just expected. But they don't use a biased voiceover. It's just interviews and scenes. The people who lie about cops dying there on the day unfortunately get the only point of view on that part of the story. There is no critical professor or journalist explaining why many statements in this doc are lies and ideological spin. But we mainly need to blame the people interviewed here. The cop wives are obviously angry and sad. They won't be giving neutral interviews at any point. The cops at the scene, who voted for Biden, won't be neutral either. If you are critical you will understand they are lying and you'll try to look past their claims.
Even though this is a biased documentary I still recommend it. It's just a fun watch. Just don't believe what is said here. It's not all true. Read up on the story in different media, both left and right. And ignore old sources. NYT and Washington Post had a ton of fake news stories about cops being beaten to death and other fake made-up events. This never happened and they later retracted all those claims. Zero cops were beaten to death or killed in any way. The misinformation flow is extreme. But what can I do? I want to watch the events of the day on screen and it's not like I have a ton of neutral documentaries to pick from on this topic. It's either this or other way more biased stuff made by extremely biased sources. So yeah, I recommend it. It's not ideal or amazing. But it is super fun.