Rate: Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Using a scale from 0-lifeless to 10-ecstatic, please rate activities that apply to this movie.![](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/aMj2FqiLsZAhpFhdJT3Xbis8nvy.jpg)
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 70
Released: 2006-11-01
Running Time: 50 Minutes
This documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today.