Documentaries reflect the values and attitudes of the maker. Explain whether these values and attitudes clash or confirm with your personal ones. After viewing Killing the children of Iraq by John Pilger and The Martyrs of Timor by Chris Downey the values and attitudes reflected by the makers of these documentaries were left with me. The simple values that we all take for granted, for example; Life, Human rights and Freedom are shown as great …
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…this is an exceptionally negative one. The Martyrs of Timor traces the events that lead to the murder of four priests, a German man and two nuns who devoted their lives in the service of the East-Timor people. The only thing the Timor people wanted was to be an Independent nation, 78.5% of the voters, voted for this, which subsequently led to burning, looting and killing of Timor people by the Indonesian Army and the Militia.