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Written by | Raoul Peck |
Directed by | Raoul Peck |
Music by | Alexei Aigui |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 4 |
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Cinematography | Stéphane Fontaine |
Editor | Alexandra Strauss |
Running time | 59-60 minutes |
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Network | HBO |
Release | April 7 April 8, 2021 | –
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Exterminate All the Brutes is an internationally co-produced documentary television miniseries revolving around colonization and genocide, directed and narrated by Raoul Peck. The series consists of four episodes and premiered in the United States on April 7, 2021, on HBO.[1] It premiered in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2021, on Sky Documentaries.[2] The series takes its name from Sven Lindqvist's book with the same name, on which it is partially based,[3][4] a phrase which Lindqvist in turn borrowed from Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, in which the quote "Exterminate all the brutes" appears.