Enslaved - Auf den Spuren des Sklavenhandels

This is about a organisation Dwp diving with a purpose who have traced some shipwrecks that they believe may be connected to slave ships that sank, they found objects that say they were used in slavery, they then get upset about a spoon and ivory. They risk their lives diving for these objects but the laws prevent them from recovering bigger objects. The slave trade was brutal and story should be told, but the first and second program are slow and dragged out. The series does get better and the story does show that even black people were involved at point of sale, but as slavery was accepted at the time people who were slaves and educated Americans rose up and help free slaves before the civil war. If you stick with the program it does have some merit, but just not all about begin of slavery, but more about ships and how slaves were packed and died on shipwrecks. The stories in episode three of people escaping slavery and finding freedom was more interesting than story of a shipwrecks.

If you are into diving and like long stretches of video depicting divers on the sea bottom looking for a piece of ivory then this is the show for you.

After promising so much with an obviously large budget, great production and, of course SLJ, this show rapidly revealed itself as a 'product of 2020'. I'd suggest that most viewers were already aware of the horrors of the African slave trade and were expecting insight and historical fact. Instead, they were served up large portions of conjecture alongside some badly constructed narratives that seemed to have served only to justify the very expensive diving expeditions. Add in the bizarrely staged / dubbed conversations, and the end result is an unwatchable, virtue-signalling mess, devoid of historical accuracy and authenticity. What a shame and a complete missed opportunity.

Overproduced and disjoint at the same time.The Americans can not make a documentary without hugely oversimplifying the story.The BBC should have done this anyone with some historical knowledge will find this to be very pathetically done.This is no better than the dumb history channel documentaries.

Just watched ep. 1 and was moved by much of it and found the rest compelling.

If you haven't watched something and/or find the subject matter of no interest to you, why try and discourage others from actually experiencing it and forming their own opinion? Look at the rest of his reviews for context.