The Empire of Good Intentions Response

The Empire of Good Intentions attempted to show the different political aspects occuring in the British Empire in the late-19th as well as 20th-centuries. Although the documentary seems to be recent enough, and admitting many aspects of the British Empire to display itself as benevolent and venerable, and exposing it as anything but such, I still found some interesting aspects (and problems) with the documentary. In the beginning of the documentary, the narrator comments on the British attitudes towards the Indians as "children of the liberal dream" and assisting them in their pursuit for "freedom." This reminded me of the United States' occupation of Iraq, and similar sentiments that we are helping them to gain liberty, democracy, freedom, [insert soundbites], with them supposedly wanting these things. Of course, comparing US to British imperialism brings up many political feelings, but I found myself brooding on that comparison while viewing the documentary.
One problem that I had with the movie was in its discussion of Indian affairs in comparison to Irish matters. The documentary discussed almost 20 minutes (roughly) of the Irish potato famine, while previously mentioning the numerous Indian famines in passing. The Irish famine was discussed in the Irish viewpoint, from the Irish perspective, while later on discussing only those aspects of Indian famine that relate to the British, from the British perspective. It seems that the Irish famine was handled more sensitively than the Indian famines, and I found some problems with that.
The narrator was also very proper British and boring and sounded like he had some nasal congestion, and it almost appeared that he was expecting to sneeze; or he was inebriated. Either way, this made the documentary difficult/almost boring to watch.