Direction: Adam Curtis

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed our perception of the mind and its workings. The documentary explores the various ways that governments and corporations have utilized Freud's theories. Freud...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is a three part BBC documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Trap and The Power...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot The series was inspired by the rise of populism in 2016. Curtis wanted to investigate why the critics of Donald Trump and Brexit were unable to offer an alternative vision...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot Bitter Lake is a new, adventurous and epic film by Adam Curtis that explains why the big stories that politicians tell us have become so simplified that we can’t really...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot The story of America's rise to power starting in 1959, it uses nothing but archive footage and Amercia pop music. Showing the consequences on the rest of the world and...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot HyperNormalisation tells the extraordinary story of how we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion - where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed...

Direction Adam Curtis

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot Short film examining the global events of 2014 to reveal a chaotic morass, the reporting of which is increasingly difficult to comprehend in the context of the 24-hour news cycle...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot Short film about how mainstream media simplify complex events and present them as "scattered terrible things happening everywhere, Oh Dear", leaving the public feeling powerless to do anything about them....

Direction Adam Curtis · Michael Sheen

Cast Michael Sheen · Mark Lewis Jones · Luke Evans · Tim Downie

Plot 3 episodes. In Wales, serious riots break out in the industrial city of Port Talbot, cradle of fury and pride of the working class, starting a spiral of violence that...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot "Pandora's Box", subtitled "A Fable From the Age of Science", is a 6 episodes BBC television documentary series by Adam Curtis looking at the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism....

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot The story, dating back to the 1950s, of the search for a cure to cancer and the impact of Henrietta Lacks, the “woman who will never die” because her cells...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot Documentary in three episodes. Curtis examines the different ways that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used and manipulated by politicians and others. Source: Wikipedia.

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot Short film chronicling the transformation of mainstream media and the balance of political power in the last few decades by looking at how the role of the broadcast journalist has...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot Short film using the paranoia of Richard Nixon to explore how a similar outlook on life has been propagated on a larger social scale in the new media age and...

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot The rise and fall of press baron Cecil King, and the changing relationship between the public, politics and the media.

Direction Adam Curtis

Cast James Goldsmith · Tiny Rowland · Jim Slater · David Stirling