Journalism's support for true crime documentary production

This research analyzes one of the episodes of the program Unsolved Mysteries to understand to what extent the documentary narrative resorts to journalism in the approach to true crimes or true crimes. The objective is to understand the support of the archives and journalistic testimonies to the documentary genre in the sample examined. For this, the Audiovisual Materiality Analysis (AMA) method was used. The study sought theoretical basis in Melo (2002), Carmo-Roldão, Bazi and Oliveira (2007), Santa Cruz (2014) and Reis, Thomé, Martins and Leão (2021). Finally, it was found that both journalistic productions and journalists are considered as a place of reference and memory by the documentary narrative analyzed.