Savages: The Story of Human Zoos

  • Documentary
  • History
9/5/2018
92

The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like animals in zoos; a shameful, outrageous and savage treatment of people who were considered subhuman.

Directors:
Pascal Blanchard
Bruno Victor-Pujebet
Writers:
Coralie Miller
Bruno Victor-Pujebet
Pascal Blanchard
    • circus
    • zoo
    • exploitation
    • racism
    • human rights
    • indigenous peoples

    Cast

    • Abd Al Malik
      Self - Narrator (voice)
    • Lilian Thuram
      Self - Anti-racism Activist
    • Pascal Blanchard
      Self - Historian
    • Sandrine Lemaire
      Self - Historian
    • John M. MacKenzie
      Self - Historian
    • Nicolas Bancel
      Self - Historian
    • Jacob Cassady
      Self - Museum Director
    • Fanny Robles
      Self - Historian
    • Walter Palm Island
      Self - Aboriginal Activist
    • Achille Mbembe
      Self - Historian
    • Félix Tiouka
      Self - Amerindian Activist
    • Gilles Boëtsch
      Self - Anthropobiologist
    • Carolina Toka
      Self - Moliko's Descendant
    • Lydia Toka
      Self - Moliko's Descendant
    • Benjamin Stora
      Self - Historian
    • Robert W. Rydell
      Self - Historian

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