“Exterminate All the Brutes”: Filmmaker Raoul Peck Explores Colonialism & Origins of White Supremacy 

America is like the world's worst narcissist with so much potential but unable to be held accountable for its atrocities so instead it wreaks of arrogant pride and denial, refusing to heal 🤦🏾‍♂️

I’m so proud of Raoul, he’s a shining example of Haiti and our smart and intelligent people

Until the lion has a narrator, the hunter will always be the hero. This man is a narrator for lions.

Great job. More kids and adults NEED to watch this Documentary. 💯

The people who really need to see this series will reject it. They won't acknowledge just how sick they are. They are happily oblivious .

It is high time that we all know the truth and face it!!!

The mere fact that the indigenous people are practically absent on this continent should astound us! We don't even recognize genocide when we see it!

I want to see the 1619 project made into a 10 part Documentary and Test Curriculum!

I have been researching this knowledge for the past 10 years, which explained so much of what I have felt my entire life. I am so glad Mr. Peck acknowledged that this madness spans 700 years. As the filmmaker said, the information is out there. He put it in a package plain enough for all to understand and expand.

This is so fantastic. This is what we need. THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS COME TO LIGHT. No matter how you try to diminish or hide it. And it's ONLY from the truth that black people or any other people will move forward.

thank you all for standing up and exposing the truth

😕🙏 I agree 100% with Raoul. My retired Pastor father told me since I was little “you can’t know where your going, unless you know where you have come from” powerful words that I have lived by and have raised my daughter in the same way. I can’t wait to see this movie. Kudos to Raoul Peck...,”God bless him!”

This film appears to be a brilliant piece of work based on the premise that if humankind doesn't recognize its past in a brutally honest way, homo sapiens will only continue to falsely divide themselves from one another to the point of self-serving extinction.

Imagine if the Native Americans had turned back the pilgrims with flaming arrows as they were getting off the ship...

I would love to write and direct a real historical movie just like this about my country my civilisation. What an inspiration. People have the right to know about their roots. What an eye opening project.

Can I just say...what a Rock Star you are Amy Goodman...a complete Rock Star!! 👩‍🎤🌟

They are afraid of the truth being told. This is unsettling for them.

The encounter between the female leader and the military officer said it all. "You steal men, you steal land, you steal lives, what kind of species are you?"

I watched all 4 parts. It was painful. I couldn't sleep the first night. I continued to watch it the next day. I could not stop until it was done. It was powerful and necessary.

RAOUL PECK is an amazing director this documentary it is a must see. As a Haitian woman 🇭🇹 I myself is excited about this documentary. Just my mouth alone isn't enough the U.S doesn't like Haiti and today still shows it. What's happening in Haiti today isn't just a Haitian people thing; the U.S have a big part of it. I'm glad that he mentioned it here people think I'm crazy when I say it when it's pure facts here it is Mr.Peck just said it. It took 300 Haitian men to help the U.S fight and win against the great Britain still than it took America 48 years I believe for them to recognize the Haitians and the U.S doesn't want us to get together; they actually said it. If us the Haitian people didn't help America it wouldn't be an America today and we wouldn't know what language America would speak today. In reality if you don't know your pass your future can not be complete. It's just like an adapoted child who doesn't feel complete without knowing who there birth parents or know of them, some can move on but the majority still question who they are. This is a MUST see it will do great for you and your children. People have become so acceptive to what's happening in the world simply because they're don't follow their history. When you know your true history what's happening today people would rise up especially for that vaccine it's the same as killing you for your land.

Thank you so much for covering this. Stumbled upon this doc and was completely BLOWN AWAY. Every episode had me rapt. Hope DN's coverage gets more people to watch. Give Raoul Peck all the awards

“What did you do with 100 million people? You have to explain that.”

Thank you, Raul Peck, for exposing truth in a world of misinformation.

This is an outstanding series packed with facts and information that many are not aware of. This should be required viewing in schools, churches and civic organizations. Those who claim to be "color-blind" might have to rethink their stance after learning how such a position can be just as damaging as overt racism .. because color-blindness as it pertains to race relations is nothing more than closeted apathy. And change does not arrive riding on the coattails of apathetic people. So either educate and move to create change for true equality .. or admit that you stand in the way of such change in favor of maintaining the invisible and unspoken variety of racism that has plagued America since 1964. You are either for equality or against it .. and citing color-blindness will no longer disqualify people as racists.

I have waited for 60 years to know and hear publicly a truthful accounting.

Loved the line in the movie, "what kind of species are you?" While they inserted the lie calling everyone else savages, less than human. What it really shows is they are that which they claimed others to be, in every aspect.

I highly recommend this show to my fellow descendants of European colonizers. It truly is an eye-opener and you will not look at the world the same way ever again.

A famous line from the movie A Few Good Men comes to my mind,i.e.,"you can't handle the truth!" So long as the truth is swept under the rug there's no legitimate reason to clean the house. No shame. No blame. So we can keep playing the same old game.

I’m so proud of this project I can’t wait for my children to watch and to know real history

This was an absolutely gripping documentary. A review I read mentioned the cinematography. Much of the actors stare directly into the camera. This is an invocation to the viewer to witness. Absolutely incredible.

I'm a white South African. As a young boy growing up on a small farm outside of Johannesburg n the 1970's and 80's. I understood that something was very wrong with the society that I lived in when a (black) woman who had been raped, bleeding and covered in blood, her dress torn knocked on our door in desperation looking for help. My parents who were not overtly racist did what they thought was right and called the police. I was around 7 years old.When they arrived they mocked her, calling her 'kaffir', the worst racial slur and asked for 'dompas' (this was a document document issued by the local apartheid authority that gave a person of colour 'permission to live in a specific 'white areas).They were also subject to a early evening curfew and arrested if they didn't have the document on their person. She didn't have hers and they thre into the back of the police van. I cannot remember why my parents let this happen but I suppose they couldn't do anything and like most white people then ( and now), they simply turned away. I was deeply traumatised, and subsequently became acutely aware of the injustice around me and have become a voracious reader of colonial history. This director shines a light on the truth of our past. I understand that for most white people this series will make them extremely uncomfortable, but as he says, until you acknowledge and own the truth of the past we will never truly move forward.

Raoul, you got a very deep analysis of hypocrisy of western countries when regarding humankind! Bravo

Thank you so much Mr. Peck for your amazing mind.

It is no wonder we are more to the world than the credit we receive or even give to ourselves, we see our greatness in this man who is a genius.

Brilliant! An eye-opening education for everyone everywhere! 👏🏽 Not sure how the power structure let this film slip through & guess they're reliant on mass indifference.

I love Nermeen. She has one line and she nails it every single time.

Thank The Most High. The truth revealed. Thank you for making this series.

As our last Tlatoani Cuahtomoczin prophesied....our sun will rise again after a long time of darkness, light will shine again and truth will be seen. Thank you Mr. Raoul Peck for bringing truth, light, and healing to our collective unconscious! Blessings to all!

This is sooooo fantastic I am totally encouraged. I do not mind if some reject it - just learn from this if you can. We need to agree that human suffering is human suffering, not a resource for this or that set of elites or governments to exploit. Fantastic thanks Lundqist and Raoul Peck. Michel Ralph Trouillot a tremendous scholar, mentioned several times here. Knowledge is our only hope. Thanks to all of you. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This man is telling a truth everybody knows because we are either "the brutes" or the oppressors. Change will take place when the many brutes stop hoping the oppressors will change and decide to unite in order to eliminate their problem.

" the past is not really past, the past has a future that we can't anticipate".

One of the best docs on US history Ive ever seen! Moscow Mitch wants to continue the propaganda!

The middle of this interview Mr Roul speaks of coming to a collective decision to just be honest about what happened. I love it, this interview is ripping my heart out. Im a white girl from Canada, growing up in the 80s-1997 Grad, Canadian school systems failed us miserably, for 12 years we are bound to a contract we didn't sign because we were babies and didn't know how to make decisions which would be a skill one would think they would add in the curriculum, instead we get math, science, english, and social studies, what deplorable subjects, the last one is where they talk about history as a watered down version of one family's narrow view point of what they want history to include. Fake history, fake news, basic language, numbers, and elements. You learn basic life skills if your lucky enough to make it to a rehab center. Thats where i learned about what really happened by a facilitator at one of the rehab centres i went to. The Native Addiction Center i picked in 2017 wanted to learn about spirituality, the most beautiful woman id ever met, a facilitator there introduced me to the truth, at 37 years old, i learned what they did to those people by a survivor of the residential school system. To which i had to destroy my life to the point of no return, before the spell of the west was lifted. They came here, what they brought to trade the natives of the land was alcohol, getting those beautiful people drunk, taking their valuables in trade, and anailating them while they were wasted, shaming them for being inexperienced with alcohol, their livers were not adapted to process alcohol as those of the old world, using that as an excuse to alienate then from their children their heart. A business called the catholic church preaching the word of man under the guise of a bastardized spirit, giving even the creator of this planet a bad reputation, as they had their way with an entire nation of innocent children. Some lived many didn't. My beautiful facilitators hair was not cut since she left the residential school, her hair is had no pigment, every strand, of once jet black, was pure white, from being terrorized from the morning she said they picked her up with her 2 brothers, and 1sister. The last time she saw her brothers, and her sister went skitsophrinic from the violence she experienced. It was at high volume, all the time in every form imaginable. She said she was mute for years as a young adult, she did not speak, because her language was beat out of her. I had no idea, it was then i understood the racism in this country, its not racism at all its generational trauma, as well as 1st generation trauma still to this day, as i have friends who were in residential schools, im 43. Handsome Lake of i believe he was from the Algonquin Tribe in the US was the dis credited gentleman who came up with the concept of 'alcoholics ammonomous' in the 1700's almost 200 years before Bill. W. was a sparkle in his dad's eye, the name Bill.W. still glorified 150 years later in every meeting, i cannot remember what became of poor Handsome but it these meeting s were villianized, and Handsome paid dearly demonized for connecting with his people in attempt to salvage what had become of the tribal people in a state of spiritual illness, and brought by the settlers again to relinquish the grip that alcohol has. As honerable are, they were trusting, they were targeted, they were destroyed on every level, this is hidden, in a fall down system , of based on non bias financial status, titles, and narcissistic self entitled ideology, mistakening power and control can rid them of their gaping sense of inadequacy, that bottomless void, that one alive in spirit won't face . I'm appalled, and would really like to take a moment to say thank you, to the continent of Africa, for standing together, and stepping up in refusal , of signing away the rights of the people on this planet, these leaders saved the world! Thank you and Congratulations Much love from an urban Canadian slum, Niki. Sorry for the novel, and also there is 0 information of the slavery of the African people in this country.

There will definitely not be a "nonviolent outcome "! Thanks again" Democracy Now" 👍 for a most worthwhile broadcast!

I am so excited to see this series, ew-weeee!!! Thank you Raoul Peck and Democracy Now!

This is a must see for everyone in the USA and really worldwide. Also this is a great way to represent history. WATCH THIS LEARN FROM IT.

They no long have to teach it. We will and are teaching our children.

The truth is the truth. Thank you Raoul for being willing to shine the light on the history of oppression abuse and genocide which has led us to what we see occurring today🙏🏾

Yes as said by Raul! We all need to do our homework! The correction needs to come from all of us from within, to understand right and wrong.

A country can't be "inherently evil". But the people who run it can.

Raoul is brilliant. This series needs another boost around the world. It is an essential document on the colonial present we are in, told by someone who has lived with it and gives a damn and has great talent. His insights on James Baldwin were great too and I'm so glad to hear he out of all people is doing an Orwell doco. That just seems perfect, cant wait. Plus there are his other works to check out. Bravo!

Great show once again, Amy. There's no getting away from the truth. Thank you again

Outstanding doc. Amy said it best, it’s an Epic masterpiece.

This work is a masterpiece of the correct story of the U.S.A.'s origin.

I feel so Blessed to have parents (history buffs) who taught me the Truth about HIS-STORY. If "they" won't do it, the responsibility is in your hands, don't wait for "them."

Raoul, great job 👏 👍 I'll be promoting and sharing your work with any, and everyone I can.

as a Haitian man . I am proud of you Raoul for this great masterpiece.

This reminds me of Anne Coulter's appearance on The View when she was touting her book "Adios America". One of the panelist argued that we've ALL descended from immigrants. Coulter's argument was she did NOT descend from immigrants. She descended from SETTLERS!!! That said it ALL!!!!

The truth is very uncomfortable....Big up my African Haitian brother🇭🇹, the people of the true empire of liberty must lead, and Raoul is doing just that. African brothers of all nationalities must unite and tell our story.

Thanks Raoul for your work.

I'm in the UK and this is now on our tv, I watched the first 15 mins, and had to stop. I will be watching the rest of it tonight, I don't know if I will get through it all, its very, very raw, and leaves nothing to the imagination, so be warned. The truth should always be told, even if its hurtful, by doing so, it can stop us making the same mistake again.

One of the most important documentary’s produced on colonialism and racism ever!

Amy delivers still and again🙏.

They didn’t get away with none of it, VENGEANCE IS MINE SAYETH THE MOST HIGH 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The best document-series that I have ever watched. Powerful and moving portrayal of history that the west goes out of its way to distort through the education system and the media.

Mr. Peck, you are amazing & a Warrior for truth!! Thank you. Blessings to you.💜🙏

A "must watch" series. I look forward o it.

I appreciate everything he said. I'm an amateur historian, n I wish he'd call me. He's the 1st man I've heard in a long time to have good strength within. Thank you for the information..... Marsha...

I watched this on HBO and it was excellent. The actor Josh Hartnett is one scary dude. I am encouraging all my family members to watch.

It's about time someone create a work like this.

This is absolutely fantastic... We need to spread this information to as many as possible...

Thank you Amy for your courage despite the intended evil faced and vomited situation that you have to grit your teeth to share with the world as you discoverd that black human being are being subjected to Inthe past and present.

Absolutely an epic documentary. If you don't have the knowledge, it gives you that. But he (Raoul peck) makes a statement, it is not the knowledge that we lack. It is the courage to do what is necessary

She hit the nail on the head, and we still asking today "what kind of species are you"

This was an incredible documentary. I watched all 4 hours, back to back.

Thank god you're there to shine the light of truth for us all .....we value you and respect you deeply.....take good care......much LOVE, PEACE AND RESPECT to you all at Democracy Now.....from me and my family in Liverpool, Scotland and elsewhere in Europe......xx.....🇸🇩🕯️🇸🇩

This is the truth the GQP wants to keep out of schools. Programs such as this and the 1619 Project are sorely needed.

They can never agree on the genocidal practices they've committed and continue to commit ... it's an admission of unfathomable guilt that can never be rectified

Brilliant series !! I’m watching it. Just unbelievable how violence, subjugation, and narcissism continue to thrive. I see over 200 revisionist have disliked the video.

Thank you Amy for conducting this interview in a very professional and respectful manner, which is very rare in this day and age. And Raul , I have the strongest urge to have a cup of tea with you.

Very good Interview. Thank you DN!

What a great interview. Definitely watching this docu-series!

The film is awesome wow centuries of of history in 4hrs and can't wait to see what he does next...I gotta watch all his films and the ones quoted in the documentary...peace love and research

As told in the book penned by Ronald Sanders “lost tribes and promised land” He proved that the seminal tribe were the tribe of Ruben as well as aboriginal native of Australia, are of Ruben Jacob’s first born

The release of this brilliant masterpiece has radically changed the way i perceive history. From now on truth will prevail and the so-called civilization vs savagery narrative is finally debunked.

Thanks for this illuminating interview and promotion of Raoul Peck’s timely “Exterminate All the Brutes.” Brilliant and necessary, the unavoidable truth is expressed in his documentary masterpiece, a film that courageously reaches every which way for the light . This is an unflinching and generous work of art in the service of awakening the living and generations to come.

The point regarding genocide that Mr. Peck makes around 29:00, is explored in depth by Ward Churchill in his fantastic book 'A Little Matter of Genocide'. A devastating book, similar in many ways to this excellent film by Raoul Peck. I encourage everyone to read it.

The best document-series that I have ever watched. Raoul Peck is a great Haitian storyteller/director.

Dear AmyGoodman. Thanks for just being who you are. I appreciate your programs. Surely you have contributed to mankind's history a lot. I hope one day I can meet you.

This professor speaks so clearly and truthfully. I will see the film for sure. Thank you for presenting this wonderful interview 👍🌎

Thank God. I'm not alone in my thinking. Bravo Mr. Peck

OMG THAT MOVIE LOOKS SO BADASS!!!! I have goosebumps all over😳

This was the Most Heart Breaking Documentary I ever Saw and Witness in My Black Entire Life. It Have to Be Told and Discuss in Order to Move on and Again Not White WASH in this "It Didn't Happen"!!!

I’d love to see this film. It’s explaining many things that I’ve been explaining about how we got to this place, like “When Corporations Rule The World” and “The Rich and the Super Rich” because it will show all the unjust things that happened, and just what is causing world poverty. Even if it doesn’t SAY it specifically.

Thank you Mr. Peck and Democracy Now for all you do and for all you have done. Keep up the good work...

Interesting work. A definite must see for all who seek the true historical account of 'development' and 'modernisation.' Brilliant!!

Wow! My jaw just dropped. Amazing!

Paraphrasing Oscar Wilde, he said that the US went from barbarism to decadence without ever reaching splendor. The same could be said about Europe. Only that they exported their barbarism -almost all, they managed to keep some to terrorize their underclass- into the “colonies” creating the most brutal and inhuman behaviors that ever took place.

“We must have a real and honest conversation.” - Filmmaker Raoul Peck

We also were also here (AND everywhere) else before slavery...if the story is being told...start from the right place!