The Marbles | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The Marbles started filming on the 25th of March 2021 the day Greece celebrated its 200th year of freedom, and outlines  | dG1fWkNiLXVmem0taU0

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00:00I started making a documentary about why I think the Parthenon marbles should be repatriated to

00:08Greece. If you call them the Elgin marbles, it implies that they belong to Elgin, but they never

00:17did. The Parthenon marbles are in this place on a myth. I think it is pretty clear that Elgin

00:25stole marbles. The British state claims ownership. Legally acquired. That has been the fundamental

00:37argument of the British for over 200 years. Legally acquired. What was the British government

00:51doing? Buy from Elgin. We don't know whether they were stolen or not. And for me, the cause

00:57of knowledge in museums is that bit more important than national pride. It might have felt right

01:03in the 19th century, but it's wrong for the 21st century. It's a colonial mindset. You

01:10can't look after it. We'll take it from you. It's out in our great robbery.

01:14It's theft. It's theft. Whatever way you look at it, it's theft. Those marbles should go

01:21back to Greece.

01:24The British Museum is in possession of stolen goods, and you have an obligation to return

01:31them to the rightful owner.

01:34It was built there. It belongs there.

01:44It's theft. It's theft. It's theft. It's theft. It's theft. It's theft. It's theft. It's