Born to Fake
Born to Fake
Watch Born to Fake Online Free on Watchseries. In 1996, one of the biggest media scandals in German history shook the public: Michael Born, a self-made journalist, had faked over twenty reports for the newly established private television station between 1990 and 1996. Some seemed amateurish, others dealt with absurd topics: child labor for IKEA in India, drug addicts licking toads to get high, and the Ku Klux Klan in the Eifel region were just some of his numerous fabrications. How did it come to this? Was Michael Born an enlightened figure who subversively exposed the tabloid system, a victim of the system, or simply a bumbling fraud? Film traces Michael Born's footsteps. Put together from hundreds of hours of raw material and the memories of former companions, an incredible story of forgery emerges. A media-theoretical film about levels of reality, fake news, and the question: Why do we actually believe what we see?
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Germany
- Director: Erec Brehmer
- Cast: Michael Born, Roland Berger, Martin Lettmayer, Dr. Gabriele Schuster, Thomas Pritzl,
Comment
Related Movies
- 2004
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/117.02004HD
Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in...
![Fahrenheit 9/11]()
- 2011
Doctors of the Dark Side
Doctors of the Dark Side6.82011HD
Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature length documentary about the pivotal role of physicians and psychologists in detainee torture. The...
![Doctors of the Dark Side]()
- 2023
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink02023HD
A secretive hedge fund is plundering America's newspapers, and the journalists are fighting back. Backed by the NewsGuild union, they go toe-to-toe...
![Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink]()
- 2008
It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks
It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks6.82008HD
The murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist in 2004, followed by the publishing of twelve satirical cartoons depicting the...
![It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks]()
- 2017
The Brave Class
The Brave Class6.72017HD
Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...
![The Brave Class]()
- 2014
One Rogue Reporter
One Rogue Reporter62014HD
Rich Peppiatt delivers a satirical dissection of the newspaper trade by turning the tables on unscrupulous editors. Through a series of mischievous...
![One Rogue Reporter]()
- 1935
White Marathon
White Marathon101935HD
Documentary on one of the first editions of the Trofeo Mezzalama, the highest ski mountaineering race in Europe, at more than 4,200 meters above sea...
![White Marathon]()
- 2022
Call Me Miss Cleo
Call Me Miss Cleo5.92022HD
Follow the rise, fall, and reinvention of controversial and revered '90s television psychic Miss Cleo. Featuring interviews with celebrities and...
![Call Me Miss Cleo]()
- 2019
i -Documentary of the Journalist-
i -Documentary of the Journalist-8.22019HD
In Japan, there is an informal agreement between mainstream media and the government that is hardly ever questioned: Journalists are not too...
![i -Documentary of the Journalist-]()
- 2011
No Job For a Woman
No Job For a Woman02011HD
Martha Gellhorn, Ruth Cowan, Dickey Chappelle: Three tenacious journalists who forged legendary reputations as war correspondents during a time when...
![No Job For a Woman]()
- 2003
Murders of Hollywood
Murders of Hollywood52003HD
Sensational and shocking stories from Hollywood are not always fiction. Beyond anything a screenwriter could imagine, and with cast of famous stars...
![Murders of Hollywood]()
- 2025
Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals
Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals7.32025HD
A democracy and a dictatorship. A presidential campaign and dirty money. War and death. When Nicolas Sarkozy affirmed in the press that “No one...
![Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals]()
