Savages: The Story of Human Zoos

Savages: The Story of Human Zoos

92 mins | Documentary, History | Sept. 5, 2018

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.

Savages: The Story of Human Zoos

92 mins | Documentary, History | Sept. 5, 2018

Savages: The Story of Human Zoos
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.
Producers ARTE, Bonne Pioche Productions, France Télévisions, Archipel Production
Original title Sauvages, au cœur des zoos humains
Directors Bruno Victor-Pujebet, Pascal Blanchard
Writers Coralie Miller, Bruno Victor-Pujebet, Pascal Blanchard

Cast

Abd Al Malik

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Lilian Thuram

as Self - Anti-racism Activist

Pascal Blanchard

as Self - Historian

Sandrine Lemaire

as Self - Historian

John M. MacKenzie

as Self - Historian

Nicolas Bancel

as Self - Historian

Jacob Cassady

as Self - Museum Director

Fanny Robles

as Self - Historian

Walter Palm Island

as Self - Aboriginal Activist

Achille Mbembe

as Self - Historian

Félix Tiouka

as Self - Amerindian Activist

Gilles Boëtsch

as Self - Anthropobiologist

Carolina Toka

as Self - Moliko's Descendant

Lydia Toka

as Self - Moliko's Descendant

Benjamin Stora

as Self - Historian

Robert W. Rydell

as Self - Historian

Pamela Newkirk

as Self - Journalist

Ndiaga Seck

as Self - J. Thiam's Descendant

Sylvie Chalaye

as Self - Theater Historian

Sylvette Kaloïe

as Self - M. Kaloïe's Descendant

Didier Daeninckx

as Self - Writer

Ayana Jackson

as Self - Photographer

Nanette Jacomijn Snoep

as Self - Anthropologist