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The BBC’s Documentary on Nietzsche: Not Recommended

This one leaves a great deal to be desired.   As a guide to his philosophical work, it is worse than useless, and full of bromides that make Nietzsche out to be a proto-existentialist or self-help pop psychologist, and it even resurrects various myths about Nietzsche.  The problem results primarily from the fact that the film-makers appear to have relied almost entirely on non-philosophers, and even on non-scholars (the writer Leslie Chamberlain is pleasantly trite and uncomprehending, and the novelist Will Self, who is featured quite a bit, is criminally stupid [really, there should be a law against him ever speaking about Nietzsche in public again!]).  There is some nice footage of important places in Nietzsche's life, so this film is perhaps best watched with the sound off.

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