Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis (born 1955) is an award-winning British documentarian and writer. He has also worked as a television producer, director and narrator. He works for BBC Current Affairs. His programmes express a clear, albeit sometimes controversial, opinion about their subject.
HyperNormalisation
as Self - Narrator (voice)We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie....
Movie pageBitter Lake
as NarratorAn experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role...
Movie pageModern Times: The Way of All Flesh
as NarratorIn 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from...
Movie pageParanoia
as DirectorShort film using the paranoia of Richard Nixon to explore how a similar outlook on life has been...
Movie pageThe Rise of “Oh Dear”-ism
as Narrator (voice)Short film about how mainstream media simplify complex events and present them as "scattered...
Movie pageEvery Day Is Like Sunday
as NarratorAs we wait to see whether Rupert Murdoch will fall from power and lose control of News...
Movie page"Oh Dear"-ism II & Non-Linear War
as Narrator (voice)Short film examining the global events of 2014 to reveal a chaotic morass, the reporting of...
Movie pageThe Power of Nightmares
as NarratorExamines how politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society.
TV Show pageThe Century of the Self
as NarratorThe legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world...
TV Show pageThe Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
as NarratorIndividual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines...
TV Show pageAll Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
as Self - Narrator (voice)We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we...
TV Show pagePandora's Box
as NarratorPandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the...
TV Show pageCan't Get You Out of My Head
as Himself (Narrator)In six films, Adam Curtis traces the different forces across the world that have led to now. It...
TV Show pageThe Living Dead
as NarratorThis series investigated the way that history and memory have been used by politicians and others.
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