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.
Filmography
The Living Dead
3 Episode s . as Narrator
The Living Dead
3 Episode s . as Narrator
Pandora's Box
6 Episode s . as Narrator
Pandora's Box
6 Episode s . as Narrator
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
3 Episode s . as Self - Narrator (voice)
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
3 Episode s . as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
3 Episode s . as Narrator (uncredited)
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
3 Episode s . as Narrator (uncredited)
The Century of the Self
4 Episode s . as Narrator
The Century of the Self
4 Episode s . as Narrator
Can't Get You Out of My Head
6 Episode s . as Himself (Narrator)
Can't Get You Out of My Head
6 Episode s . as Himself (Narrator)
The Power of Nightmares
3 Episode s . as Narrator
The Power of Nightmares
3 Episode s . as Narrator
Created Shows
Pandora's Box
6 Episode s . 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 Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.
Pandora's Box
6 Episode s . 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 Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.
The Power of Nightmares
3 Episode s . Examines how politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society.
The Power of Nightmares
3 Episode s . Examines how politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
3 Episode s . 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.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
3 Episode s . 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.
An Ocean Apart
7 Episode s . When the 20th century opened, Britain dominated world affairs, and America stood on the sidelines. Now their positions are reversed. This is the story of how it happened.
An Ocean Apart
7 Episode s . When the 20th century opened, Britain dominated world affairs, and America stood on the sidelines. Now their positions are reversed. This is the story of how it happened.
Adam Curtis: Shorts
5 Episode s . Adam Curtis' short films from Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and Newswipe programmes.
Adam Curtis: Shorts
5 Episode s . Adam Curtis' short films from Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and Newswipe programmes.
Can't Get You Out of My Head
6 Episode s . 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, opium and opioids, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power.
Can't Get You Out of My Head
6 Episode s . 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, opium and opioids, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power.
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
7 Episode s . What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
7 Episode s . What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.
The Way
4 Episode s . Strikes in Port Talbot spark a revolution – and a family of fugitives go on the run. Facing impossible choices, what would you do?
The Way
4 Episode s . Strikes in Port Talbot spark a revolution – and a family of fugitives go on the run. Facing impossible choices, what would you do?
The Living Dead
3 Episode s . This series investigated the way that history and memory have been used by politicians and others.
The Living Dead
3 Episode s . This series investigated the way that history and memory have been used by politicians and others.
The Century of the Self
4 Episode s . 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 examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics.
The Century of the Self
4 Episode s . 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 examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics.