Adam Curtis films and TV series

Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis is a British television journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is known for his work on a range of topics, including politics, sociology, and popular culture. Throughout his career, Curtis has won multiple awards for his documentaries, which are known for their innovative approach to storytelling and their profound insights into contemporary issues.

The Century of the Self

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 8.8

The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examina...

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Can't Get You Out of My Head

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 8.5

In six films, Adam Curtis traces the different forces across the world that have led to now. It covers a wide range—including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opi...

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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 8.5

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, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But...

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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 8.3

We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.

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HyperNormalisation

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 8.2

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to...

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Pandora's Box

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1992 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Pandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet...

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