Review by superdirk

Nice educational docu about Flanders (and perhaps even a larger area around it) that reviews the history highlights.

Tom Waes brings this in a fantastic way, were he mingles himself between the re-enactors of the several battles, which delivers the occasional funny moments.

Between the events and the battles, he really managed to find the right historians, who can tell the story in such a way that the viewer can identify with the people and the way live must have been in the past.

This documentary has created some controversy in Belgium between the left and right winged. (to fully understand, you would need some knowledge of the complex Belgian politics). Some left winged people would claim that this was made to create a Flemish feeling of nationalism which would work in favor of the right-wing parties.

In my opinion it does not do so, it is just a short overview of our history, and even Tom Waes himself said in the papers that in no way this was made for some political agenda.

For anyone who has a good interest in history, this docu will be very interesting, as it also explains in certain parts how historians work and what they need to do to gather data from times long past.