Over the years, there's been a lot of talk about whether a documentary can truly make a difference. We've seen plenty of examples of pivotal docs like Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth successfully raising awareness about global warning and the other side of the coin, something like Marina Zenovich's Romance Polanski: Wanted and Desired reopening an old case and getting its subject back into trouble. Much of that concept of documentary filmmaking being able to make a difference can be traced back to the "Paradise Lost" movies made by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofksy during the '90s, which followed the case of three Arkansas youths: Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr., who were tried and convicted of murdering three boys in a...
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