The authenticity of a documentary is ‘deeply linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images are linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear evidence of events that actually happened, by virtue of the indexical relationship between image and reality’
Horness Roe. A. (2013) Animated Documentary. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Honess Roe (2013, Animated Documentary) argues that there is a profound connection between images and reality in documentaries. We can prove the authenticity of documentaries by the following facts: documentary images to some extent provide evidence for what really happened in reality.