Christopher Hitchens Documentary (New) - Part 1

Part 2: • Christopher Hitchens N...
This documentary movie is my attempt to tell the story of Christopher Hitchens life and the ideas he fought for. I realize it is a bit lengthy, but I have edited it with care, and I think if you are interested in Christopher Hitchens you will be rewarded if you give it a chance.
*In the most general of terms Part 1 focuses on Biography, Politics, Iraq, and Free Speech. Part 2 is dedicated primarily to his contributions to the God debate and Atheism in general. I'd love to start with Part 2, as it is my favorite, but I wanted to put the man's life into perspective and present a full view of his life. He was an exemplar of Free Thinking on many topics and many areas. This is solely for the benefit of true Hitchens fans (although he would insist on having no fans, only reviewers or critics).
**None of the videos are original to me, but I have put a lot of effort into the editing and composition of this documentary. Much credit is due to the creator of "The Hitch" documentary, also available on youtube, which I built the structure around.

[@nerdy4172]

Listening to this documentary, I realised that here in Pakistan, we had young man named Mashal Khan. I don’t know anything about him. But he was an outspoken student in his university. He was killed by religious mobs in the university in 2019. I must say that you western are very lucky that you’re free to think and express. And Hitchens was the result of freedom of speech.

[@jessizthebess4590]

I'll never forget hitchens he had a huge impact on my life

[@woodytheduke]

hope he brought you closer to god!😁

[@johnped37]

So much work, so little appreciation. Thanks for posting this! It’s videos like these that keep Hitch immortal for future generations, irony intended.

[@lyndapierson6338]

thank you from the bottom of my heart for this doc

[@Mushutoku]

I genuinely miss the man

[@zawiszaczarnysulima3700]

Since his death, and every morning I scan with a trembling heart for his successor, hoping that one had emerged while I slept, and every morning I have to defer for another 24 hours.

[@jaybee9269]

I know very much how you feel!

[@Balstrome1]

You have been taught well, why not stand up and show what you have learnt

[@RICHIEPACMAN]

The Hitch lead a wonderfully crazy life as we grow we learn change and have many many ways of interpreting/understanding opinions that did change as time changes, bet hell he could crush any intellectuals on the turn of phrase

[@patrickcrowther9195]

I think people who bemoan Hitchens' straying from the true path of leftist ideology have somehow missed the point - for many years he'd stood for freedom of thought and expression unbounded by rigid conformity to a particular dogma. He may have been one thing in his twenties, he was certainly another in his sixties. It would have been odd and somewhat depressing had his thinking been preserved in aspic as that of an eternal soixant-huitard. His considerable intellect was such that it allowed him a range of thought that was ultimately unconfined to any of the pigeonholes in which we like to constrict ourselves.

[@dalelinney8437]

That section on Sadaam was fucking chilling.

[@melflo4651]

We lost him 😢

[@tiamaria123]

No we haven't, not while we have his videos!👍

[@melflo4651]

@@tiamaria123 >> agree, thanks for the comforting words.

[@d.mavridopoulos66]

@@tiamaria123 Don't forget his books too. Hitch-22 is an absolutely terrific read. Also an exciting crash course in the latter-half of the 20th century's politics and history. So are God is not great, Arguably, and Love, Poverty and War. Like Coleridge and Oscar Wilde, I think the full charm of his personality, could only be experienced by meeting and talking to the man. His voice, gestures and wit could not be conveyed in writing. A little before his death, he wrote a marvelous essay on the subject: Unspoken Truths. I can't recommend it highly enough.