Robert Newman – The History Of The World Backwards Episode 1
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Robert Newman – The History Of The World Backwards Season 1 Episode 1/6
Robert Newman combines comedy and history in fantastically entertaining monologues such as his ‘History of Oil’ theater production.
In this new 6 part series, Newman looks at history as if time flowed backwards. The opening scene, for example, comments on the ethnic cleansing by Cherokee and Apache in the 1800s that lead to the eradication of all white people from the North American continent by the mid 15th Century.
The most startling result of this process is that many things can be seen as progress when played backwards. Our destruction of the Earth’s environment becomes our understanding of how to fix it.
29 min 1 sec Oct 30, 2007