There are many documentaries that do not methodologically represent valid facts, and one can argue that many others deliberately change the reality to achieve a perceived aim.
Such media changes the evidential status of the forms of testimonies and narrative revelations that the medium relies on.
Since the triumph of the Islamic Republic in Iran, the nation has been subjected to malevolent representations by the West, and documentaries have provided false information about the nation, and have a prime position in Persiaphobia. Persephobia describes an unfounded hostility towards Persia and Persians.