Documentaries Tagged “adam curtis”
The Power of Nightmares
The Power of Nightmares
The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. The series consists of three one-hour films, consisting mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis’s narration, which were first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and have been s...
25 Million Pounds
25 Million Pounds
Like many in the 1980′s, Nick Leeson wanted to be rich and successful, but Nick Leeson was also a very strange man, he had an extraordinary ability to manipulate and deceive those around him. This is his story. It is also a story about those he deceived. They willingly entered into a dream he wove, lured by the prospect of vast sums of...
The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh
In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, America. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since.
There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her origi...
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
A series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines they have built. Although we don’t realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers. It claims that computers have failed to liberate us and instead have distorted and simplified our view of the world around us.
The Mo...
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
A series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines they have built. Although we don’t realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers. It claims that computers have failed to liberate us and instead have distorted and simplified our view of the world around us.
The Us...
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: Love and Power
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: Love and Power
A series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines they have built. Although we don’t realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers. It claims that computers have failed to liberate us and instead have distorted and simplified our view of the world around us.
Love a...