Eric Hobsbawm The Consolations of History (2021)

In this featurelength documentary Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Hobsbawms life and the history he told from his teenage years in Germany as Hitler came to power and his communist membership to the jazz clubs of 1950s Soho and the makings of New Labour taking in Italian bandits Peruvian peasant movements and the development of nationalism in the modern world with help from the assiduous observations of MI5