The extraordinary films of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis.
What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.
Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence – and You.
Welcome to the post-truth world. You know it’s not real. But you accept it as normal.
Adam Curtis’s epic story of how Britain, America and Russia got lost in Afghanistan.
Exploring the idea that humans have been colonised by the machines they have built.
First of six modern fables exploring the cultural impact of 20th Century science.
How scientists grew cancerous cells in the aim of conquering the disease. By Adam Curtis.
How the dream of revolution in Iran became a nightmare. Documentary by Adam Curtis.
How Sigmund Freud's American nephew invented the public relations profession.
How those in power manipulate both history and memory.
The story of Colonel David Stirling and the birth of the global arms trade in the 1960s.
How futures trader Nick Leeson caused the collapse of Britain's oldest bank.
The first part of the series explains the origin of Islamism and neoconservatism.
Adam Curtis explores the modern concept and definition of freedom.
Are you finding the world’s news too depressing and scary to bear?
Has a defeatist response to the news become part of a new system of political control?
Adam Curtis reveals how the media has turned us all into paranoid weirdos.
We live in a dream world, detached from reality.
A short and possibly unfair history of the rise and fall of the TV journalist as a hero.
