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Can documentaries change the world?

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15 June 2015

Episode 192

28 minutes


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We talk to Joshua Oppenheimer about his candid films, ‘The Act of Killing’ and ‘The Look of Silence’, which deal with the Indonesian genocide of the mid-1960s. Plus we head to the Bertha DocHouse in London – the only documentary cinema in Great Britain – where Elizabeth Wood tells us about the social and political responsibilities of documentary makers.

15 June 2015

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Chapter 1

Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer, part 1

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Joshua Oppenheimer made the documentaries 'The Act of Killing' and 'The Look of Silence'. In this long-form interview we find out the process behind these harrowing films on the Indonesian genocide of 1965.

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Interview with founder and director of the Bertha DocHouse, Elizabeth Wood

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Elizabeth Wood tells us about the financial, political and social value of documentaries and how she's created the only cinema devoted to them in the UK.

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Interview with documentary-maker Joshua Oppenheimer, part 2

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In the second part of our interview, Joshua Oppenheimer tells Robert Bound about the impact his films have had in Indonesia.

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