Adam Curtis Collection (Century of the Self, The Trap, etc )

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Adam Curtis documentary collection
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It Felt Like a Kiss (2009): How American Power Really Works
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The story of an enchanted world that was built by American power as it became supreme... and how those living in that dream world responded to it.


The Trap (2007): What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
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The Trap explains the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
"Human beings will always betray you. You can only trust the numbers."


The Power Of Nightmares (2004): The Rise of the Politics of Fear
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Where radical Islam and Neo-Conservatism came from, and how both needed to inflate a myth of a dangerous enemy in order to draw people to support them.


The Century of the Self (2002)
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How those in power have used Freud's theories to try to control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.


The Mayfair Set (1999)
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How buccaneer capitalists were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years.


The Living Dead (1995): Three Films About the Power of the Past
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The way that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used and manipulated by politicians and others.


Pandora's Box (1992): A Fable from the Age of Science
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The dangers of technocratic and political rationality.