Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution (2009)

Paris: 1794. The Revolution of 1789 has become the Terror. Robespierre, 'the Incorruptible', has become the most powerful man in France, but the Terror has turned on its creators.
Like most revolutions, the popular uprising in France in 1789 contained within itself the seeds of its own destruction. In fact, some historians have argued that the rottenness at the core of the French Revolution was mainly down to the involvement of one man -- Maximilien Robespierre.
The watchwords of the French Revolution were liberty, equality and fraternity. French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre believed in them passionately. He was an idealist and a lover of humanity. But during the 365 days that Robespierre sat on the Committee of Public Safety, the French Republic descended into a bloodbath. Robespierre was saying "Forgiveness is barbarity, tolerance is atrocity", and oxymorons like black is white – and suggesting otherwise is treason – then everyone knew they were in trouble. In 1794, he produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence.
The French Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution that lasted from 1793-1794. It was based around the use of Terror to force the population into conformity and eliminate all those who stood in the path of the Revolution, resulting in thousands of official executions and many more murdered outside of the courts.
Throughout 1793, there were numerous threats to France's existence. To overcome this problem, the National Convention established two committees: The Committee of General Security, which was head of policing France and promoting justice, and the Committee of Public Safety, which had the role of protecting the Revolution from foreign invasion and internal rebellion by any means necessary. Maximilien Robespierre, a passionate believer in liberty and virtue, eventually became the most influential and powerful member on the Committee of Public Safety which effectively overthrew the National Convention and became the unofficial ruling body of France. The executions and chaos of these years of 'The Terror' only came to end when Robespierre was devoured by the repressive machinery he'd created.
This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee Of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France, and looks at how Robespierre's revolutionary idealism so quickly became an excuse for tyranny, and why a lover of liberty was so keen to use the guillotine.
Contesting Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Zizek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp. The drama is set against scenes from classic films on the Revolution, and excerpts from Robespierre's own speeches. Programme is based on original sources, and follows the life-and-death politics of the Committee during "Year Two" of the new Republic.

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 2 550 Kbps
Video Resolution: 1024x576
Display Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 1 h 31 min
Number Of Parts: 1
Part Size: 1.70 GB
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