SBS acquires race doco
SBS buys a UK documentary that tackles the controversial issue of whether intelligence is linked to race.
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SBS has acquired the rights to Race & Intelligence: Science’s Last Taboo, a UK documentary that tackles the controversial issue of whether intelligence is linked to race.
The 90-minute film aired in the UK amid furore over Nobel Prize-winning US scientist James Watson’s claims that black-skinned people were less intelligent than other races. Journalist Rageh Omaar (pictured) sets out to find out the truth, meeting scientists who believe the research supports the view that races can be differentiated as well as those who vehemently oppose this view.
The doco seeks to explode the myths about race and IQ.
The 2009 film won a Grierson award for UK documentaries and has now been picked up by networks in Singapore, New Zealand, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Denmark and Canada.
Source: C21
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I find it a mite peculiar that whenever discussing the construct “race” nobody, but nobody separates the genotype from the phenotype, and then arrives at a definition based on the biological isolate as is used in avian science when discussing races of birds. One day, someone will grasp the nettle…
SBS One aired the Windfall Films/Channel 4 documentary Race & Intelligence: Science’s Last Taboo on Sunday 28th November this year.
The documentary’s duration is 62 minutes 25 seconds (SBS’s broadcast went for 70 minutes with inserted commercials).
Scorpion TV, who handled the international distribution, lists it as a “60 minute program”. Illegal torrents for the show list it between 62 and 63 minutes. I don’t know where C21 are getting the 90 minutes from, I can find no evidence that supports it.
Check out the programme synopsis on the SBS TV schedule, it’s verbatim of what’s on the relevant sites of Channel 4, Windfall, Scorpion and, indeed, the C21 post.
And what a fantastic documentary it is, Rageh Omaar is an excellent journalist who handles the controversial subject in a honest and careful way.
Hello David, SBS One screened this as a sixty minute (8:30 – 9:40pm) episode on Sunday 28 November.
Here’s the link: sbs.com.au/schedule/SBSONE/2010-11-28/SBS%20Sydney 🙂
It was a really good documentary. Odd that it should be announced so singularly that SBS has acquired a doco that the ABC showed just a few weeks ago.
As far as I know there was a series, but this is a 90 min doco.
Wasn’t this program on the ABC a few weeks ago?
They already played it recently.