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Documentaries are a great way to learn about specific topics and current events. The Most Influential Documentary Film Makers use techniques that enable people to be interested in the documentary and learn more about a specific thing. One way that documentary film makers influence others is by appealing to different emotions. For example, a documentary film maker may describe the horrors and atrocities of the Civil War. When they describe these events with vivid and gruesome detail, they are appealing to people’s fears. Influential documentary film makers will provide statistics when a specific topic is being discussed. Quantitative information will be presented in these films. This information can include trends and number of people affected by a certain event. Bar graphs may accompany some of the data to show the differences between two or more sets of data which helps supports the main idea of the documentary. Influential documentaries not only have an informative tone, but have an amazing presentation as well. Influential documentary film makers incorporate music, for instance, to evoke certain feelings within the audience. Harsh sounding or scary music may be played as some frightening information is given to the audience. This helps connect the audience to the documentary. Colorful graphics may be included as well to keep the film from being boring. Pleasant-looking films, to many people, are worth watching over visually unappealing films.