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For all the characters in the movie, Life and Nothing But (La Vie et rien d’autre), the baggage of war is carried years after. Life and Nothing But is the story of a French Major assigned the happy task of retrieving and identifying the dead in a tunnel that had been mined by the retreating “Huns.” They blew it up as a train had been passing through.

Fairly straightforward plot lines. Major Dellaplane not only has to deal with the bodies, but with the military bureaucracy above him. He is competent in his work of matching names to corpses. The brass wants him to find one that can be the French “Unknown Soldier” to fulfill a patriotic ritual.

Okay, the French Revolution has its problems on film. The White Orchid wants to give us the lost civilization. Don’t get me wrong. The genre, a B movie staple is absurd, but one of my favorites. In the White Orchid, a Pre Columbian Civilization has retreated to the Jungle and survived.

William Lundigan stars as archaeologist Robert Burton. Lundigan is one of those actors you’ve seen but probably don’t remember his name. He never got the big break but he did have a long career in B movies.

In the second installment, Jones delves a little deeper into a culture that was in some ways far more advanced than — and therefore hated by — those in the Roman Empire.
“The Brainy Barbarians” covers a civilization we in the Western World usually put on par with Rome, the Greeks. Even though the Greeks, as a culture, were older than the Romans, master of architecture and art and literature, they were barbaric…because they were different.

Based on surname alone, Terry Jones and I have one thing in common — we’re both of Welsh ancestry. That means that, deep down, we’re both still a little upset by what the English did to our homeland and by what the Romans did to all of Britain before that.
I believe that’s the reasoning behind Jones’ documentary undertaking, “The Barbarians.” Since history is usually dictated by the victor, everyone outside the Roman empire, both before and during the modern era, has been viewed as unwashed, stupid and mean.