Assignment task: Watch the documentary and answer each question.
Documentary: Who Were the Vikings, BBC
1. What is the subject of the documentary? In other words, what is it about?
2. What information does it put forward? What information, if any, is left out? In other words, what perspective if any, is missing in the documentary.
3. Who made the documentary and to what degree do you trust that they are being accurate? Why do think this?
4. Who are the dominant voices in the documentary?
5. Are they official sources such as government representatives, or are they experts of another kind? Or are they people from the time period?