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Savages: The Story of Human Zoos
Film / 2018

Savages: The Story of Human Zoos

Directed by Bruno Victor-PujebetPascal Blanchard
DocumentaryHistory

★ 7.8/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Abd Al MalikSelf - Narrator (voice) Lilian ThuramSelf - Anti-racism Activist Pascal BlanchardSelf - Historian Sandrine LemaireSelf - Historian John M. MacKenzieSelf - Historian Nicolas BancelSelf - Historian Jacob CassadySelf - Museum Director Fanny RoblesSelf - Historian Walter Palm IslandSelf - Aboriginal Activist Achille MbembeSelf - Historian Félix TioukaSelf - Amerindian Activist Gilles BoëtschSelf - Anthropobiologist
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Carolina TokaSelf - Moliko's Descendant Lydia TokaSelf - Moliko's Descendant Benjamin StoraSelf - Historian Robert W. RydellSelf - Historian Pamela NewkirkSelf - Journalist Ndiaga SeckSelf - J. Thiam's Descendant Sylvie ChalayeSelf - Theater Historian Sylvette KaloïeSelf - M. Kaloïe's Descendant Didier DaeninckxSelf - Writer Ayana JacksonSelf - Photographer Nanette Jacomijn SnoepSelf - Anthropologist

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