Raoul Peck

filmmaker and political activist

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Raoul Peck is a Haitian filmmaker of both documentary and feature films, and a political activist.

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Filmmaker Raoul Peck’s four-part series on HBO Max, “Exterminate All the Brutes,” tackles the origins of racism and white supremacy over 600 years.

‘Exterminate All the Brutes’ docuseries: Raoul Peck explores white supremacy roots

Filmmaker Raoul Peck’s four-part series on HBO Max, “Exterminate All the Brutes,” tackles the origins of racism and white supremacy over 600 years.

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In his new HBO series “Exterminate All the Brutes,” filmmaker Raoul Peck jumps around the world, and goes forward and backward in time, tracing the history of white supremacy and…

In ‘Exterminate All the Brutes,’ Raoul Peck examines white supremacy through a personal lens

In his new HBO series “Exterminate All the Brutes,” filmmaker Raoul Peck jumps around the world, and goes forward and backward in time, tracing the history of white supremacy and…

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Writer and activist James Baldwin died in 1987, but as is clear in the Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro , his words do not feel dated at all.

Raoul Peck: I Am Not Your Negro

Writer and activist James Baldwin died in 1987, but as is clear in the Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro , his words do not feel dated at all.

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