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Part Two: Henry Morton Stanley: The Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa

Behind the Bastards

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Gio Do Hitler, Oh Man. Yeah.

"This is probably the most impressively researched justification for mass murder that I've ever read," says Robert De Niro. "I kind of want to hear Gio do Hitler, I know he wants to deep down." In 2012, a new documentary series about Britain's Imperial past was being aired on British TV. The show aimed to refute conventional view that the British Empire was a thoroughly bad thing. But Sir David Attenborough apparently did not get the memo.

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