The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, defines documentary as:
1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents.
2. Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film.
Academicbias.com is the website to which viewers are directed for more information about the film. On this site, it is stated, "In this cutting exposé, documentary filmmakers Maloney, Browning and Greenberg shine a light on political correctness, academic bias, student censorship--even administrative cover-ups of death threats
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This positioning of the movie presents that it is, in fact, a documentary. My belief is that, based on definition 2 above, the movie is not a documentary, but instead a good example of the the facts speak for themselves' actually means the facts, as I have carefully arranged them, support my position.'
Evan Maloney, the filmmaker, is clearly working in the style of Michael Moore. The......
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