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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?; A Storm Foretold; Paris Olympics; Slip – review

President Barack Obama (centre) and his national security advisers discuss strategy in Syria, August 2013, in Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
President Barack Obama (centre) and his national security advisers discuss strategy in Syria in the situation room of the White House, August 2013, in Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? Photograph: BBC/Dror Moreh Films

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? (BBC Four) | iPlayer
A Storm Foretold (BBC Four) | iPlayer
Paris Olympics 2024 (BBC/Eurosport/Discovery Plus)
Slip (ITVX) | itv.com

What to say about Dror Moreh’s BBC Four docuseries Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? That it’s a damning indictment of a superpower that intervenes in global atrocities only when it suits its own interests. That it leaves you rinsed in hopelessness and disgust. That it opens with second world war Nazi death camps (a genocide ignored at the time) and the vow of “Never again”, then, episode by soul-crushing episode, produces proof that “again” is exactly what’s allowed to happen.

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