Adam Curtis
The extraordinary films of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis.
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.
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Part One - Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain—Can't Get You Out of My Head, Series 1
Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence – and You.
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HyperNormalisation
Welcome to the post-truth world. You know it’s not real. But you accept it as normal.
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Bitter Lake
Adam Curtis's epic story of how Britain, America and Russia got lost in Afghanistan.
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Love and Power—All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Exploring the idea that humans have been colonised by the machines they have built.
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The Engineers' Plot—Pandora's Box
First of six modern fables exploring the cultural impact of 20th Century science.
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The Way of All Flesh—Modern Times
How scientists grew cancerous cells in the aim of conquering the disease. By Adam Curtis.
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The Road to Terror—Inside Story
How the dream of revolution in Iran became a nightmare. Documentary by Adam Curtis.
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Happiness Machines—The Century of the Self
How Sigmund Freud's American nephew invented the public relations profession.
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On the Desperate Edge of Now—The Living Dead
How those in power manipulate both history and memory.
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Who Pays Wins—The Mayfair Set
The story of Colonel David Stirling and the birth of the global arms trade in the 1960s.
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£830,000,000 - Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings—Inside Story
How futures trader Nick Leeson caused the collapse of Britain's oldest bank.
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Baby It's Cold Outside—The Power of Nightmares
The first part of the series explains the origin of Islamism and neoconservatism.
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F**k You Buddy—The Trap
Adam Curtis explores the modern concept and definition of freedom.
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Oh Dearism—Adam Curtis: Shorts
Are you finding the world’s news too depressing and scary to bear?
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Oh Dearism II—Adam Curtis: Shorts
Has a defeatist response to the news become part of a new system of political control?
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Paranoia and Moral Panics—Adam Curtis: Shorts
Adam Curtis reveals how the media has turned us all into paranoid weirdos.
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Living in an Unreal World—Adam Curtis: Shorts
We live in a dream world, detached from reality.
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The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist—Adam Curtis: Shorts
A short and possibly unfair history of the rise and fall of the TV journalist as a hero.
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