Calum Steele, the general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, the trade union for police officers, declined to answer questions about the documentary.
Of course there is, to state the obvious, a world of difference between a Nazi propaganda film and these two self-consciously light entertainments, but all three raise questions about the documentary genre and its claims on the real.
Poring over relics of lost grandeur -- glamorous portraits, poignant scrapbooks -- while living most whimsically amid their many un housebroken pets, the Beales triggered essential questions about the documentary filmmakers' complicity.
We'd made a mistake and apologised to the BBC and provided them with a complete account of our actions," he said, bringing to mind the surreal press launch earlier last week where the RDF executive team were on the verge of walking out of their own event after stonewalling questions about the documentary.
Watch Michael Moynihan answer your questions about this documentary.
But on this Monday in February, she had been with thousands of other kids, touring middle schools to answer questions about her documentary "Blackfish".
Will Shortz, the editor of The New York Times crossword puzzle, answered readers' questions about the new documentary film "Wordplay". Q. 1.
They were answering questions about how the documentary, supposedly recently presented on Scranton's PBS affiliate, had changed their (fictional) lives.
These disputes sometimes have a relatively conceptual character, and sometimes are rooted more clearly in questions about various bodies of documentary evidence.
It's a mind-bending film, devastating and disorienting, that disturbs us in ways we're not used to being disturbed, raising questions about the nature of documentary, the persistence of evil, and the intertwined ways movies function in our culture and in our minds.
