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- 2021
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- 2021
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Summary The four-part documentary from Raoul Peck uses archival material as well as animated and dramatic scenes to explore the destructive history of European colonialism and its impact on today's world.
- 2021
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2021
- TV-MA
- HBO
Exterminate All the Brutes
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 7, 2021
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5.6
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Summary The four-part documentary from Raoul Peck uses archival material as well as animated and dramatic scenes to explore the destructive history of European colonialism and its impact on today's world.
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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85% Positive
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15% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
83
85% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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From a pure filmmaking perspective, Exterminate All the Brutes may be unparalleled among TV docuseries; the closest I can think of is the complexity and contextualization evident in the 2016 Oscar-winning 10-part series O.J.: Made in America. Peck doesn’t rely on tired visual tropes or techniques that would make it easy to just put on the show in the background while you’re doing something else. He demands our attention with wit, craft, and well-placed anger.
The questing, curious way in which Peck brings together inquiries and observations and potent visuals makes for a powerful and immersive experience. ... Rather than referencing the present moment to a fault, Peck is working on a grand scale and a sort of geologic time, measuring our history in acts of cruelty. He does so with a visual imagination and an unblinking-ness that will leave those viewers who are up for the challenge dazzled and, perhaps, changed.
User Score
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Based on 50 User Ratings
5.6
54% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
4% Mixed
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42% Negative
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 50 User Ratings
5.6
54% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
4% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
42% Negative
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
It’s a heavy handed approach for would be viewers that make their patriotism a virtue, but it uses lots of footage and a wide range of both documentary and production styles, to keep it moving. Lots of intimate historical detail, and important incite to how evil can manifest itself in society through the power of using delusion, or being deluded.
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Part personal essay, part investigation, the docuseries “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a striking piece of nonfiction work that has the intellectual rigor of an advanced history course, and asks that viewers keep up with its many ideas and horrors over the course of its four hours.
More than 1,000 years of genocidal events are a lot to consume, but Peck creates a cohesive journey that shows how original sins manifest into present-day racial injustices.
The approach Peck takes in “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a thought-provoking and worthwhile and, yes, complex response.
Peck’s thesis is too often swaddled in obscuring and derailing discursions.
“Exterminate All the Brutes” is a dense collage of ideas, words and images that doesn’t mind circling back to a previously made point. Were it on the page, rather than the screen, you might marvel at its audacity while at the same time wishing for a tighter edit. It moves, thanks largely to the savvy media criticism provided by the movie clips, but it’s in absolutely no hurry to get anywhere.
One of the least self-aware documentaries I have ever seen. Peck claims the white Europeans hypocritically demonized other peoples, and proceeds to do the exact same thing throughout the entire series. "This is a story, not a contribution to historical research" is a direct quote from the first episode and sums up this documentary perfectly.
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This is a history movie written by you would think a collage activist. the story telling it self is vary all over the place circling back and having a hard time getting to the point. The Doc series is four parts which is to long this could easily be 90min so there is a lot of filler.
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Production Company:
- HBO Documentary Films
- Velvet Film
Initial Release Date: Apr 7, 2021
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations
AAFCA TV Honors
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Peabody Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
