Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It may come as a surprise to many who watch Joshua Oppenheimer’s latest documentary about the systematic murder of a million Indonesians in the 1960s that it is a genocide in history to which the vast majority of people may have no idea happened. Unlike the actions that led to the Khmer Rouge, the barbarity of events that saw six million people exterminated in the death camps of Europe or the slow destruction of the ethnic American people by the United States Government, the act of murder of a people based on ideology has never really entered the minds of those encumbered and immersed into a world with no Cold War to focus their minds.