‘Sometimes, it’s shocking’: Raoul Peck on his bold new colonialism series

The Oscar-nominated film-maker behind I Am Not Your Negro returns with Exterminate All the Brutes, a dense new HBO docuseries about a horrifying history

Truly, what else was there left to say about race in America after the words of James Baldwin? This is what Raoul Peck found himself contemplating after the success of his 2016 documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, which was nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy, a Bafta and a Cesar award. He was confounded and disappointed to realize that some audiences, particularly in Europe, weren't fully comprehending the work of what he calls one of the best, if not the best analyst of what racism is", believing it to be primarily an American concern.

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