As a medium, documentaries have become increasingly popular over the years, especially among audiences. A large benefit of creating documentaries is that they can provide a voice to individuals without the means to raise issues. It’s no secret that many, if not most people do not have the platform to bring awareness to issues that they’re facing, and this is where documentaries can help promote wider awareness.

Documentaries therefore help to provide a voice to the voiceless, informing wider audiences of pressing problems that are important to be aware of to incite change.  One survey discovered that of the 305 respondents surveyed, ‘95.7% reported that they enjoy documentary programming’, emphasising just how well documentaries are received by audiences.

A huge benefit of making documentaries is that they can offer new perspectives. It can be easy to live in an echo chamber if you’re not educating yourself and hearing various perspectives, which is one of the reasons why unbiased documentaries are so important to shed light on topics on a global scale.

The educational aspect of documentaries can offer audiences new perspectives on a variety of cultures that they might have never heard of, whilst connecting you with new people and new stories all over the world. In creating documentaries, then, you can therefore help audiences to make more rounded opinions whilst also educating them on important matters.

Although documentaries are non-fiction films, they are still considered a form of entertainment.