From the past to the present, many scholars, filmmakers, and historians engage in an ongoing debate over whether films use a piece of memory to tell the story of past events. Directors can also take on the role of historians, but as an alternative retelling of a specific event, unless it is a biopic. Marita Sturken uses the example of Oliver Stone's docudramas to explain how Stone himself is using his experiences to tell the story. In addition to using her own experiences, she tries to recreate the story with docudramas that question its legitimacy, while Barbie Zelizer uses Steven Spielberg as director to tell the story through the retelling of a novel. Both authors use a filmmaker and specific examples from their work to explore how people remember important events without having witnessed them; in particular Sturken focuses on Stone's legitimacy and while Zelizer uses Spielberg and his documentary style to address the event of the Holocaust. Sturken uses Stone's credibility from his past to determine the legitimacy of the docudramas Stone creates. Stone as a director is often considered to be the individual Americans were looking for with his famous films Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July portraying history well due to the credibility he had from having served in the war. Sturken uses this as the first example to demonstrate his point about how history is portrayed from a specific perspective. Although later in his article he uses other Stone films about government conspiracies, which shows that he does not have the authority to create a false history within American culture through his presidential films. Creating films under the “docudrama” genre can create a misunderstanding of what…half of paper…how accurately is being portrayed without distorting how we remember the past. as historians have been discussed during major events that occur and can only be remembered so much. Filmmakers can use genres like docudramas or documentary-style ways to tell the narrative of the event, but they are only limited to certain documents they can draw from to tell the story. In addition to this, the director's decision to include or exclude certain things may only capture part of the event without “first-hand experience”. Stone and Spielberg are historical directors who carefully select specific scenes that can accurately represent important events through their own credibility or popular culture. The film may therefore not appeal to everyone, but it does not distort to a large extent how we would remember the past, but rather keeps us remembering.