Saddam's Tribe

It's good.

The documentary maker interviewed Saddam's eldest daughter and then used English speaking actors to act it all out and an English voice over to depicting what the daughter said. It's all correct to a large degree. We hear her defend her psychopath dad with every line never saying anything bad about any family member even though her whole family were mass murderers and thieves.

The doc then also shows us scenes where they did bad things. Especially her husband who fled Iraq and tried to take power of Iraq via CIA and Uday who was Saddam's eldest son and an extreme psychopath. We see just how evil he was even though his sister calls him smart.

It's very rushed and the acting is often obnoxious as they shout at each other way too much. The first hour is great, but the shouting is way too irritating later on. Furthermore the family are full of evil people. Even the family members who escaped actually robbed Iraq before running away. Billions missing and much of the money was taken by Saddam's daughters. They now leave an extremely wealthy life and have a lot to thank Saddam for. It's a shame all these docs about Saddam always use family members as sources so we never get the full picture of just how evil these people were.

The mini series is much better as it takes time to tell the tale. This doc is too rushed timeline wise. Still a great summary, but nothing more. The mini series is a deeper dive. Though this doc has a ton of stuff I have never heard about before like Uday shooting his uncle. Such scenes are based on rumors and very little info. So they are maybe not 100% correct. But you kinda have to guess a lot to depict events.