Documentaries about Macedonia?

[Karposh]

Just realised I have reached a creepy milestone where the number of posts I have made on this forum coincides with the number of the beast. Call me superstitious but there's no way I'm having that number next to my name so here's post 667.

[Amphipolis]

Macedonian Wedding 1960 by Takis Kanellopoulos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k48Xkizju3k

100 Hours of May 1963 by Photos Lambrinos & Dimos Theos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GldoGJhaB4

Gazoros, Serres 1974 by Takis Chatzopoulos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxDAmKqfuxQ

[stefan559]

https://www.youtube.com/c/DiscoverMacedonia/videos

[Prespaneć]

https://youtu.be/69pFD1XuU7E

Apologies if these have been posted elsewhere.

[Prespaneć]

Perth Born news correspondent Courtney Bembridge in a short bbc documentary. Another Australian with strong Macedonian roots.

https://youtu.be/ID-ucpu_xg0

[Prespaneć]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06m8vcf

[Stojacanec]

Yes, the echoed quotes were cringe worthy.

[Dejan]

lol the echoed quotes killed me also.

So close to being a great Macedonian documentary...

[Karposh]

Watched it and enjoyed it (except for the echoooeeed quotations).

Yeah, that bugged me too. As did the mispronunciations by the female narrator. I know that's probably being a little bit picky but, sometimes, the little things do matter.

[Risto the Great]

Watched it and enjoyed it (except for the echoooeeed quotations).
Refreshing, logical and independent thought that will be discarded by the mainstream academics solely because they are whores.

[Dejan]

Great summary Karposh. Yeah, i found the approach very refereshing, as it brings up Macedonian occupation of the Holy Land, which does seem to be an angle that has been neglected by everyone. Also found it interesting with the possibility of some of the characters having a Macedonian, or at least a balkan background - Herod and his family

I haven't watched part 2 yet though

[Risto the Great]

Wow, now I want to watch. Thanks Karposh!

[Karposh]

Hi Dejan. I watched the whole documentary on the weekend and I thought it was really well produced. It's a great collection of quotes from ancient and modern writers (particularly those from Josephus) regarding the Macedonian colonies that lived in the Holy Land around the time of Jesus.
I actually had no idea that the most famous of Jewish religious holidays, Hanukkah, is celebrated to commemorate the Jewish revolt against Macedonian rule. I just assumed they made up a "Festivus for the rest of us" so they wouldn't feel left out during Christmas

What the documentary did do was to prompt me to read up on the Maccabees, Hanukkah and the Seleucid Empire. I was amazed to see that, in all the Wikipedia entries on these topics, not one mention is made of the Macedonians who lived in and ruled those territories over two thousand years ago. What I saw with my own eyes was confirmation of what the documentary makers have asserted themselves, that there is an injustice being done to the Ancient Macedonians by completely ignoring their contribution during this time and assigning it all to the "Greeks", "Hellenistic rule", and "Hellenism". Which is strange since Josephus, himself, separates the two colonising communities (Greeks & Macedonians) that lived in the Palestinian cities of Pella, Dion and Maked.

Another interesting point is the subtle description of the Macedonians (and Greeks) that lived during that time as described in the bible. The bible refers to the "gentiles" that lived among the Jews at that time but, for some reason, I never actually made the connection that the "gentiles" that it speaks of are the in fact the Macedonians. Also, it never really occurred to me that when Jesus drove the demons out from that possessed man and sent them into the nearby pigs, the reference was in regard to a non-Jewish community (Jews did not eat pork), most probably Macedonians.

What is also intriguing is that many Macedonians apparently accepted the Jewish faith over time and became part of the Jewish nation. The documentary goes on to draw comparisons between a typical Jew (with Semitic type of anthropological features) and the many millions of Jews who are clearly white and often with fair features. Not inconceivable to imagine that the ancestors of these white Jews are the ancient Macedonians themselves.

[Dejan]

Apologies, didn't see this thread. Please remove the thread i created regarding the same video.

Watched this the other day, and thought some of the questions brought up were refreshing

Jesus Christ and the Macedonians

https://youtu.be/HiWraz_Vu-E

[Selanec]

There's a lengthy discussion about this film here:
http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum...ead.php?t=8510

Thank you amphipolis, glad to see people here already knew about the documentary.