The French Revolution Documentary Assignment

Documentary Review

 Here is an exercise in critique and analysis of a secondary source. You will be comparing the information in this documentary (from the golden era of the History channel) to other sources in order to evaluate the French Revolution through intertextual analysis, in this case, inter-multimedia analysis.

Your task is to first watch the History Channel’s
documentary on the French Revolution.  Then
you are to write a short 2 page review of the documentary.

In particular, your review should answer the following
questions:

1)  What is the
purpose of this documentary?  Is it
successful in its primary goal?

2)  What does the
documentary do well?

3)  What does the
documentary do poorly?  (For example, are
there aspects of the French Revolution that aren’t covered or
are covered too lightly?)