Documentary or Movie?

- If Hollywood attempted to depict the Freedom Riders in movie form, could it be done authentically with a close rendering of real events to the point where it was more effective for audiences than the documentary, or will the documentary always trump anything Hollywood could do, given that it's the "true" story?

Hollywood movies are most of the time, very successful, but in this instance, I feel like Hollywood would not be very successful in trying to depict something so important when you already have a successful documentary that has successfully preceded it. In this case, I feel like the documentary will trump a movie just because the documentary contains so much raw footage that Hollywood does not have. When someone is watching the documentary, it kind of puts the person watching in that place and puts them in the shoes of the people who were there during that time. When you watch a movie about the situation, it kind of gives you that feel that the movie is fictional and not real and it wont take you to that place as much. I also feel like a true story, like the Freedom Riders catches a viewers interest more and with a film, it would be interesting, but you would not leave with the true story. You wont have first hand accounts like in the documentary so you will not be able to witness first hand how those people felt back then when they were going through a period of segregation. I think overall, people have their preferences as to weather they want to see the truth of a situation or the made up story with the truth behind it. But personally I would rather see a documentary so I can really see what happened at a ceartain time and how people felt about it.