The movie "The Quiz Show" is about the famous public reveal of a rigged television production called Twenty-One in the 1950s. The show's star attraction, a Jewish Queen resident named Herbert Stempel, rose to fame as families across the county watched the brilliant contestant correctly answer question after question, week after week. When ratings and profits began to stabilize, sponsors and producers felt a change of face was needed. The producers recruit Charles Van Doren, a Columbia University teacher who happens to be the son of Mark Van Doren, a prominent poet and distinguished academic. Stempel is asked to throw the game on a fairly simple question, in order to make room for the show's new breakout star. Although outraged, Stempel goes along with the plan. The producers corner Van Doren and cleverly propose to manipulate the show in his favor. At first Van Doren is shocked and rejects the offer, but the producers help him accept through strategic planning and manipulation. As fame and fortune overwhelm the new contestant, his morals slowly fade. Stempel becomes jealous of Van Doren's immense success and tries to find ways to avenge the show for abandoning him. He soon finds his answer when Richard Goodwin, a Harvard graduate and astute congressional lawyer, senses some uncertainty about the show's integrity. Through the help of Stempel and other past contestants who provide clear data confirming that the producers prepare the players before the show, Goodwin is able to gather enough evidence to prove that Twenty-one is rigged. Van Doren begins to crack under the pressure of the show and the weight of his guilt. With the secret to Twenty-One's success about to be revealed, Van Doren willingly loses the game, inserting... mid-card... real roles, or adding exciting events that revise the plot. . These changes are beneficial to producers because they engage large audiences and generate huge profits. On the contrary, they do not always have a positive effect on viewers. While they are entertaining, which is an important aspect of theater culture, they are also often misleading. Many viewers take films at face value, without considering that they may not exactly qualify as source material. Even when a historical event is invented to teach or reinforce a moral message, this does not compensate for the distortion of the truth. Viewers may have a positive experience and gain a distorted historical perspective, perhaps better than they knew before the film, but they lose the truth and, therefore, a genuine understanding of the historical event and its meaning..