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Exterminate All the Brutes - Season 1
The path to the new world, an unsettling and intricate story of genocides. Conquest, slavery and the fabrication of 'Whiteness'.
March 18, 1978
3 October 1967, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
1975, Dakar, Senegal
September 21, 1976 in Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
April 06, 2021
Unrelenting in its critique, but it's also more muted in tone than that title might suggest. Peck's slightly droning narration contributes to that effect, as does an approach that's more free-associative than truly essayistic.
April 07, 2021
Peck's experimental impulses, which are at the very least captivating, also get in the way of coherence...
April 07, 2021
While Peck's unorthodox approach might not win many converts, the project's existence is, if not quite a miracle, its own kind of victory.
April 07, 2021
A wide-ranging, serious and powerful look at colonialism and slavery.
April 07, 2021
A unique, blood-soaked history lesson we'd all do well to heed.
April 07, 2021
A striking piece of nonfiction work that has the intellectual rigor of an advanced history course.
April 06, 2021
The approach Peck takes in "Exterminate All the Brutes" is a thought-provoking and worthwhile and, yes, complex response.
April 07, 2021
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.
March 31, 2021
Exterminate All the Brutes is a daring, imaginative and defiantly challenging artwork -- one that often feels like it belongs as much in a museum as on a TV or laptop.
April 02, 2021
Peck's truth-telling narration is indeed hard to absorb but there's no denying the thoroughness and power of his series.
April 07, 2021
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.
April 07, 2021
It's a whirlwind of meaning about how the world got this way, a moral and philosophical appeal to reason, wrapped up in a documentary best viewed unhurriedly, in order to let it all sink in.
