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Caisa Ankarsparre, center, in Exterminate All the Brutes. | Velvet Film / David Koskas via HBO
Raoul Peck’s new four-part HBO series
Exterminate All the Brutes is a powerful, well-illustrated essay on racism. Peck skillfully tours us through twelve painful centuries of prejudice-based inhumanity toward the goal of wealth accumulation. Each of his episodes is about an hour long.
Peck’s sometimes quite personal, subjective arguments, stunning photography, florid dioramas, and ample historical data are breathtaking and persuasive. The sweep of his observations shines a bright light on the dark side of history. The use of Joseph Conrad’s quote from
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Exterminate All the Brutes (four episodes) is available on Sky Documentaries and Now TV from 1 May 2021.
In the wake of I Am Not Your Negro (2016), Raoul Peckâs genre-bending documentary about James Baldwin, the director gives us another kind of biography â of the globe. Exterminate All the Brutes is no less than a documentary history of the world in three words: âCivilisation, colonisation, extermination,â the commentary intones at the start of the first of four hour-long parts.
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