There are many expository documentaries, many of which have arrived during recent years. As mentioned earlier, during my first post, the purpose of expository documentaries is to "expose" the subject. This involves many interviews and undercover footage to use to expose the subject with. There are many expository documentaries which are broadcasted on terrestrial television, and the storyline tends to be very serious (hard-news) as compared to something of a more story-like manner (soft news). The two main terrestrial television channels which broadcast expository documentaries are, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
One of the Channel 4 documentaries include a series known as "Dispatches". This series looks at exposing rather contreversial issues and range from a wide selection of topics. Some of the episodes include...
- Dispatches - Undercover Mosque
- Dispatches - China's Stolen Children
- Dispatches - Saving Africas Witch Children
- Dispatches - How The MoD Wastes Our Billions
The undercover mosque dispatches raised many complaints towards the program being broadcasted. There were allogations that the footage shown was very one sided and bias. A lawyer complained "they cut and cropped sentences to make new sentences", meaning the footage was edited and as a result of it was taken completely out of context.
There are other expository documentaries broadcasted by channel four. An example would be "Chickens, Hugh and Tesco Too" which was a documentary exposing the condition of the chickens supplied by tesco, in order to try and make them change their way.
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