Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution is a 2009 documentary broadcast on BBC Two in July 2009. In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy are Slavoj Žižek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who
Terror in the Aisles Terror in the Aisles Terror in the Aisles is a 1984 American documentary film about horror films featuring clips from "Friday the 13th" I and II, "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", "Halloween" I and II, "Jaws" 1 and 2, "Alien", "John Carpenter's The Thing", "The Shining" and Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and "The Birds". The film is directed by Andrew J. Kuehn, and hosted by Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen. The original music score is composed by John Beal. Director Andrew J. Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror films and strung them