Ateş H.Parsa A.F.2023-01-122023-01-1220219781799871828; 9781799871804https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch002https://hdl.handle.net/11454/79962Developing technology and communication opportunities show that the audience can access fiction and documentary films more easily than in previous years. This research reveals the extent of globalization with the development of communication technologies and how orientalism takes place in documentary films through a netflix documentary. The orientalist perspective is transformed into a global perception through documentary films and documentary series on digital platforms, World's Most Wanted, Samantha Lewthwaite: The White. In this documentary, how the orientalist elements take place and how Islam is portrayed as a terror religion is revealed with the method of semiotic analysis, and the meanings created by the written-audio codes are revealed. © 2021, IGI Global.en10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch002info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessBook Chapter12322-s2.0-85127936563N/A