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2004

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Darwin's Nightmare is an award winning and essential documentary on the perverse aspects of globalization. Enter the Nile Perch, a voracious predator implanted into Lake Victoria in Africa in the '60s. They extinguished native fish species and multiplied so fast that their fillets are today exported worldwide - predominantly in .. Read more

Director	Hubert Sauper
Genres	Documentary

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Darwin's Nightmare

Director	Hubert Sauper
Studio	LACE GROUP
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 47 mins
Certificate
Genres	Documentary
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2004 To Rent: DVD: 30 Aug 2010

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  Shocks you to the core
  
  Intensely disturbing and hard hitting, a documentary that leaves you feeling sick to your stomach. The perversity and cruelty of greed and globalisation and, ... read more »
  
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  How not to write a documentary
  
  Yes, this documentary has a very valid point to make. But its incredibly slow and dilatory in making it. I think it takes just under an hour for the actual fish... read more »
  
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  Required Viewing
  
  This is a film in true documentary fashion. No presenter, very few questions. Simply a presentation of the cold, hard facts. Difficult viewing in some respects... read more »
  
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  - 07 Sep 2011 at 10:20
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  Profit over humanity
  
  European documentary film with subtitles. Mercenaries fly in arms to a Tanzanian fishing village for passing on to small wars in other African countries and fly... read more »
  
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  Darwin's Nightmare is an award winning and essential documentary on the perverse aspects of globalization. Enter the Nile Perch, a voracious predator implanted into Lake Victoria in Africa in the '60s. They extinguished native fish species and multiplied so fast that their fillets are today ...