Hidden Colors

I tried to research as many of the facts as I could. I researched almost everything I saw and could not find any problems with what was discussed. I challenge you to do the same. It's shocking, but a very accurate documentary. The problem with a movie like this is that it is so foreign to Americans of all cultures. It's foreign because in the US we are only taught mostly about European / American history which doesn't include much on any other races. We are not taught history in American schools in depth. American history is inherently limited in nature. I think we have to do a better job with this.

If you actually take the time to research the information covered here, it is scarily accurate. One of the previous posters mentioned Queen Charlotte and was appalled at the fact that she cold be considered black. However, PBS did a special on her that proved this fact. Do your own research.

I think that all "histories" should be taught so that we can understand everything about every race. Blacks in America, more than any other group of individuals have lost more history than just about any one because of slave trade. Blacks make up prisons, unemployment, and significant poverty. As humans, we need to understand what really happened. Thus, Blacks especially should watch this. In general, all people should watch this. It can be healing to individuals who were stripped of their culture to understand that there were some significant achievements by people that look like them. You do walk away asking yourself some interesting questions. It should be OK for anyone to achieve anything and get credit for it, regardless of color.

I couldn't actually find anything I could say was untruthful or hateful in this movie. The problem that I believe people will have with this movie is the shock to find out so many places in history that were affected by Africans. I recently looked up a youtube video regarding Asians which mirrored the facts in the video.

If you want to stifle racial tensions in America, a good place to start is by dealing with and correcting inconclusive historical data.

In response to bd74 from USA regarding Queen Charlotte, I suggest he or she watch PBS' well-researched documentary, 'The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families-Queen Charlotte.' Queen Charlotte was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a black branch of the Portuguese Royal House. Six different lines can be traced from the English Queen Charlotte back to Margarita de Castro y Sousa, in a gene pool which because of royal inbreeding was already minuscule, thus explaining the Queen's unmistakable African appearance.

"...the Royal Household itself, at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, referred to both her Asian and African bloodlines in an apologia it published defending her position as head of the Commonwealth."

Located on the PBS Frontline website.

I don't understand the point of this film. It's research quality is almost non-existent, a few anecdotes driving huge leaps to conclusions. Buddha was black? Because a statue of a flatter-nosed Buddha was found? What does the film have against asians, are they not allowed a proud heritage too? Must identity-politics be a zero-sum game? Does Identity politics even serve a beneficial purpose?

There are huge problems driven by racism faced by real people all around the globe, but I don't see how revisionist history is going to help. If anything this film makes the situation worse.

The film is no more factual than the Black Panther movie, and a hell of a lot less entertaining. Where Black Panther was a benefit, a triumph of a movie, including as well as the story around the "black" production of that film, "Hidden Colors" accomplishes almost the exact opposite, with research at the level of an episode of Ghost Hunters.

I can only give it two stars, the bonus point for being a bit thought provoking.

I am interested in black history, so rented this "documentary" because I thought I might learn something. What happened was, it turned into a comedy! To sum up the entire film; Africans invented everything from the wheel to space travel, and white people (and the Catholic Church) have buried and suppressed all this to "keep the black people down".

I had it on when some friends were over, and some of the statements are so absurd and ludicrous, we were laughing out loud.

According to some of the "historians" in this film: The Buddha was African (because they interpret the statues with the thick lips and "nappy hair" as being so. Now THAT'S proof! Even though he is known to have been an Indian man named Siddhārtha Gautama, they don't talk about this.

The Japanese are actually Africans who had sex with Korean people (because in ancient paintings, the figures are painted in dark pigments).

The Africans are the basis for all Asian people and culture.

On and on and on. We were all laughing out loud at this point.

Basically, the film is nonsense and it's purpose seems to be to simply make people of African descent feel good about themselves as a race. This movie is so ridiculous that is seems like something produced by Saturday Night Live. Something from the movie "Undercover Brother", that Conspiracy Brother would watch.

Anything European people have done is history was stolen from Africans, or Africans did it first. Greece, Rome, England, all that culture and discoveries.....stolen from the African.

Forget that "myth" that Arabians invented Algebra. Nope. It was an African. (Algebra was invented by the Muslim mathematician Al-Khwarizmi in the book he wrote in 820. Algebra is the Arabic word (aljabr) for "equation". Some people say Babylonians invented it, too.) The production value is crap, some of the interviews are horribly recorded, you can hear the echo in the room they are in. Most of the people are smug and act like "How can you not know this? Are you stupid?" This page seems to be filled with paid reviews, or reviews written by friends or family members, and all of them should be reported to IMDb.

"Hidden Colors" is a shining beacon of enlightenment. - HEEHEEE ! i have a feeling that must be tariq rating his own movie .. as far as enlightening i think you'd be better elevated watching a dung beetle roll his little ball of poo backwards. an unbelievable amount of blustery hooplaw that is not only factually incorrect but painfully shallow and excruciatingly reaching, whats so sad about this doc other than it being the 4th installment which is the only real impressive feat presented is this doc is no more than an insane revisionist ego trip that attempts to assert that basically everything in the history of mankind was invented and done so by black people and done so - so utterly perfect .. this is one of those ridiculous fluff pieces where nifty little useless factoids are presented to make a certain demographic feel better about their selves and above all others . problem is the vast majority of claims are totally and catagorically incorrect and the ones that aren't are trivial and meaningless in this day and age concerning uplifting a certain community , trying to give some sort of legitimacy where there is none and arguing points that have no relevance in any ones life aside from an assertion for inctane " black people have been on the earth longer than the white man and white are direct descendants of black people there fore by that decree blacks are better than whites across the board , and lets not mention the creator of these docs believes his pigmentation is some sort of satellite beacon that has powers only his race is "privileged" to have making black people the most perfect beings in existence and inherently the supreme rightful owners of this world ... yet in reality their home countries are all horrid deathspots constantly in tribal religious and civil war , where an obscene amount of women are raped and treated like garbage , the governments are the most corrupt , preventable disease flourish , iq is insanely low , education is beyond a joke , infrastructure is made of mud and clay and because of this a narrative has been pushed that white people are the devil and the most racist to ever bleath ,, if any one believes that then they have no idea what they are talking about and should do something to learn real history