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Exterminate All the Brutes, from acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro, HBO’s Sometimes in April), is a four-part hybrid docuseries that provides a visually arresting journey through time, into the darkest hours of humanity. Through his personal voyage, Peck deconstructs the making and masking of history, digging deep into the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism — from America to Africa and its impact on society today.
Based on works by three authors and scholars — Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate All the Brutes, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past — Exterminate All the Brutes revisits and reframes the profound meaning of the Native American genocide and American slavery and their fundamental implications for our present.
The series disrupts formal and artistic film conventions by weaving together rich documentary footage and archival material, as well as animation and interpretive scripted scenes that offer a counter-narrative to white Eurocentric history. Through a sweeping story in which history, contemporary life and fiction are wholly intertwined, the series challenges the audience to re-think the very notion of how history is being written.
Original Release
04/07/2021 on hbo
US Release
04/07/2021
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Raoul Peck | Self - Narrator |
Josh Hartnett | White Man |
Caisa Ankarsparre | Chieftain Ya'Hoo Cuchee |
Ettore D'Alessandro | Nobleman |
Sven Lindqvist | Self - Author, Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide |
Stefan Konarske | Nurse |
Michel-Rolph Trouillot | Self - Author, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History |
Richard Brake | General |
Eddie Arnold | (as Edward Arnold) |
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz | Self - Historian |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | The Disturbing Confidence of Ignorance | Wednesday, 07 April 2021 |
2 | Who the F*** is Columbus? | Wednesday, 07 April 2021 |
3 | Killing at a Distance or... How I Thoroughly Enjoyed the Outing | Thursday, 08 April 2021 |
4 | The Bright Colors of Fascism | Thursday, 08 April 2021 |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Raoul Peck | Self - Narrator |
Josh Hartnett | White Man |
Caisa Ankarsparre | Chieftain Ya'Hoo Cuchee |
Ettore D'Alessandro | Nobleman |
Sven Lindqvist | Self - Author, Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide |
Stefan Konarske | Nurse |
Michel-Rolph Trouillot | Self - Author, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History |
Richard Brake | General |
Eddie Arnold | (as Edward Arnold) |
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz | Self - Historian |
Ian McCamy | (as Elan McCamy) |
Shane Woodward | Reporter |
Luis del Valle | Nobleman 2 |
Barack Obama | Self - 44th President of the United States |
Denis Lyons | Lee |
Donald Trump | Self - 45th President of the United States |
George Washington | Self - 1st President of the United States |
Richard Nixon | Self - 37th President of the United States |
Bill Clinton | Self - 42nd President of the United States |
George W. Bush | Self - 43rd President of the United States |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Rémi Grellety | Executive Producer |
Lisa Heller | Executive Producer |
Raoul Peck | Executive Producer |
Jack Oliver | Executive Producer |
Nancy Abraham | Executive Producer |
Poppy Dixon | Executive Producer |
Jamie Morris | Executive Producer |
Daniel Delume | Producer |
Sara Rodriguez | Producer |
Ana Guerrero Guillen | Producer |