I was looking through the “History of the World in Videos” article on NOITV recently, it contains a lot of interesting information. I want to eventually develop it more and add more videos to it. For example I think it needs more information about Central and South America, Canada, and ancient Mesopotamia, and there isn’t any information about space exploration.
One of my favorite documentaries in it is the History Channel “Barbarians II” series that was created in 2007, which explains how power shifted from the Roman Empire to kingdoms in mainland Europe. It is a shame that some of those episodes are no longer available to watch on Amazon streaming, I’m looking into finding those episodes to post them myself.
There is a newer “woke” version of that series on YouTube, however each of its episodes are twice as long and I don’t think they are nearly as interesting. It includes annoying guest commentary by people like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Al Sharpton where they actually even mention the Black Lives Matter organization as some sort of a comparison! The new video series was created during the BLM rioting and kneeling at football games, etc. In fact the History Channel even updated the online artwork for the original non-woke Barbarians II series to feature a black man as being representative of what happened!
This is what the History Channel wants people to think a “Barbarian” looks like.
This is the original artwork for the 2007 Barbarians II DVD.
It is true that one of the many Barbarian leaders in history who was named Hannibal was “somewhat” black, however. (link, and link)
This opening scene in Ridley Scott’s movie Gladiator is a good depiction of what Barbarians actually looked like.