Review – Homo Sapiens 1900

One of the things that frequently gets lost in consideration of the Nazis' genocidal atrocities is that they didn't exactly come up with the theories of “racial purity” that came to characterize their evil. But as productions such as this point out, eugenics didn't begin with Hitler. Instead, at one point it was considered at least a semi-legitimate branch of evolutionary biology in such "forward thinking" places as the United States. Though I already knew a little about the subject, I was startled to learn just how heavily the Soviets were into the whole selective breeding thing. Though this isn't an ultra-polished production, it nonetheless does a fine job of working with archive footage to bring to light a part of history that seems all too easy to ignore. Mildly amusing