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This documentary is riddled with simply horrible information. Clearly the skew in ratings here is due to an utter ignorance in history and complete unfamiliarity with how historians and others in the humanities assert claims. I'll preface some of these corrections with the disclaimer that I have seen parts of the second documentary "Hidden Colors 2" and may be adding some of the mistakes from that movie to this one by accident, for which I do apologize. Without further ado, a sample of some of the many egregious errors. - It is asserted that the name Africa came from Scipio Africanus. This is false, he was given the agnomen (nickname) after decisively defeating Hannibal (The "African") at the Battle of Zama. The true origin of the name is either Phoenician or Berber, depending on who you ask. - It is asserted that Mansa Musa and Montezuma are in fact the same person which is a ridiculous claim. Musa I (Mansa Musa) lived from c. 1280 - c. 1337, while Montezuma I lived from c. 1398-1469. A half century separates them, not to mention the fact that it is generally accepted by serious historians that no transatlantic travel occurred prior to the Vikings (though there is some evidence to suggest that individual boats may have made the trip - entirely by accident after having been caught in great storms). - It is asserted that no figure named "Jesus" could have ever existed because the letter "J" was not invented until the 16th century. This is horrible scholarship. First off, it would be like saying there was never a Vladimir Illyich Lenin because his name was actually Владимир Ильич Ленин. Ludicrous. It's called transliteration. I'm an agnostic and I still find this to be insane. Jesus almost certainly existed, and was a Jew from present day Israel, who would have spoken Aramaic and probably Hebrew. There is no "J" in Hebrew, his actual name would more closely be rendered Yeshua, the transliteration of which into modern English can be rendered "Jesus" or "Joshua." This is excluding all the evidence from contemporaries which support the claim that there was a Jesus of Nazareth (while making no claims as to his divinity). - It is asserted that Beethoven was part African. This is a bold-faced lie, with essentially no evidence to support it beyond the contemporary accounts as to him having slightly darker skin. We must keep in mind that though he was part Flemish, he also had Spanish ancestry. Amongst very pale Germans, the darker Spanish (Mediterranean) complexion would have been very noteworthy, but there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that that was African ancestry. - It is asserted that Moors are essentially African. This is limply not true, and is rejected by most ethnographers. While many Moors have dark skin - this is a phenotypic development, not a genotypic one. That is to say, they did not, in large part, get these genes from Africans, they developed them independently. When actually considering their DNA, one finds a mix of essentially two groups: Berbers (the majority of it) and Arabs (to a lesser extent). Of course there is African DNA from the Sahara region peoples, but this does not constitute anywhere near the majority of their unique sequences. I will probably get flamed by people who thought the so called documentary was great, but this review is here because of the 30 that read it, hopefully one or two will look at it, and realize that they have been duped, and do the research for themselves, not from white power websites, but not from the slipshod scholarship of some of the Afrocentric "researchers" either. The problem with their assertion that white people are part of a conspiracy theory to keep Africa and Africans down is that it assumes that white people are a single person with unified goals and missions, and even then the argument doesn't even hold water. If you have never met a reasonable white person it's for one of two reasons 1) bad luck or 2) they don't believe this crazy stuff making you think they are unreasonable. Turn the situation around and I'm sure there are tons of white people who say they have never met a reasonable black person, could be for one of two reasons 1) bad luck 2) they think black people believe this crazy stuff. Fact of the matter is there are plenty of reasonable people of all ethnicities who agree that this movie is crazy, and also agree that white people have done some messed up stuff in the past.