Adam Curtis presents yeat another great BBC documentary-The Engineer's Plot:
"The revolutionaries who toppled the Tsar in 1917 thought science held the key to their new world. In fact, it ended up   more...creating a bewildering world for millions of Soviet people. In this light-hearted investigation, one industrial planner tells how she decided the people wanted platform shoes, only to discover that they had gone out of fashion by the time that the factory to manufacture them had been built  less

Adam Curtis presents yeat another great BBC documentary-To The Brink of Eternity
Focusing on the men of the Cold War on whom Dr Strangelove was based. These were people who believed that the world could   more...be controlled by the scientific manipulation of fear - mathematical geniuses employed by the American Rand Corporation. In the end, their visions were the stuff of science fiction fantasy.  less

An insight into the history of nuclear power. In the 1950s scientists and politicians thought they could create a different world with a limitless source of nuclear energy. But things began to go wrong.   more...Scientists in America and the Soviet Union were duped into building dozens of potentially dangerous plants. Then came the disasters of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl which changed views on the safety of this new technology  less

A look at how former Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial and scientific age. At the heart of his dream was to be the huge Volta dam, generating enough power   more...to transform West Africa into an advanced utopia. But as his grand experiment took shape, it brought with it dangerous forces Nkrumah couldn't control, and he slowly watched his metropolis of science sink into corruption and debt."  less

Adam Curtis presents yeat another great BBC documentary- Goodbye Mrs Ant A modern fable about science and society, focusing on our attitude to nature. Should we let scientists be the prime movers of social   more...or political change when, for instance, DDT made post-war heroes of American scientists only to be put on trial by other scientists in 1968? What kind of in-fighting goes on between rival camps before one scientific truth emerges, and when it does emerge, just how true is it?  less

Adam Curtis presents yeat another great BBC documentary-The League of Gentlemen
Thirty years ago, a group of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had foolproof technical means to   more...make Britain great again. Pandora's Box tells the saga of how their experiments have led the country deeper into economic decline, and asks - is their game finally up?

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Pandora

First piece of the Second Section. Adam Curtis explores the roots of terrorism and neoconservatism and more...their development together only a few decades ago. Brought out through free download from   more...Archive.org.
<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/kahlanamnell/5C7CBD9CC57A4625A4B73BFE9415F5BB/adam-curtis-power-of-nightmar.aspx"> Shadows in the Cave 1/2</a>  less

First piece of the Second Section. Adam Curtis explores the roots of terrorism and neoconservatism and more...their development together only a few decades ago. Brought out through free download from   more...Archive.org.
<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/kahlanamnell/38101D0977BD4C7FA46B8BB58B5781B6/adam-curtis-power-of-nightmar.aspx">Back to first part</a>  less

First piece of the Second Section. Adam Curtis explores the roots of terrorism and neoconservatism and their development together only a few decades ago. Brought out through free download from Archive.org.
  more...<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/kahlanamnell/9A2130CAEEA24B508521CD4946885391/adam-curtis-power-of-nightmar.aspx">Link to part 2</a>  less

Last piece of this section. Adam Curtis explores the roots of terrorism and neoconservatism and their development together only a few decades ago. Brought out through free download from Archive.org. <a   more...href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/kahlanamnell/9140804542C5439AA99D6281A87781FD/adam-curtis-power-of-nightmar.aspx">Link to 1/3 Baby its Cold outside</a>
<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/kahlanamnell/38101D0977BD4C7FA46B8BB58B5781B6/adam-curtis-power-of-nightmar.aspx"> Second Section The Phantom Victory 1/3</a>  less

Adam Curtis explores the roots of terrorism and neoconservatism and their development together only a few decades ago. Brought out through free download from Archive.org.
<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/kahlanamnell/437FBA65F62747CF90C58205D28A3BB5/adam-curtis-power-of-nightmar.aspx">Link   more...to 3/3 of this section.</a>  less

Adam Curtis explores the roots of terrorism and neoconservatism and their development together only a few decades ago. Brought out through free download from Archive.org. First of three pieces to this   more...first section. <a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/kahlanamnell/4D3A6AD696944BD3A398AFA44DA56C4F/adam-curtis-power-of-nightmar.aspx">section I part 2/3</a>
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Part the Second of my favourite BBC documentary thus far! Fair use and all that
<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/kahlanamnell/4D16BC89E5E24598B31538AFA67FDE01/the-trap-we-will-force-you-to.aspx">Click   more... for part 3/3</a>  less

Third section of the Power of Nightmares. Adam Curtis explores the roots of terrorism and neoconservatism and their development together only a few decades ago. Brought out through free download from   more...Archive.org.
<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/kahlanamnell/0EF9DFD4E7DE415DB559A9EB8811B220/adam-curtis-power-of-nightmar.aspx">Shadows in the Cave Part 2/2</a>  less

Second piece of the Second Section. Adam Curtis explores the roots of terrorism and neoconservatism and their development together only a few decades ago. Brought out through free download from Archive.org.   more...
<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/kahlanamnell/4C6073EFA4C94B51AA239127EC8FEB51/adam-curtis-power-of-nightmar.aspx">Last part of Phantom Victory</a>
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Ep2 pt3 Century of the Self- Engineering Consent

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Ep2 pt6 Century of the Self- Engineering Consent

Ep2 pt1 Century of the Self- Engineering Consent

Ep2 pt5 Century of the Self- Engineering Consent

Ep2 pt4 Century of the Self- Engineering Consent

adam curtis century of the self

adam curtis century of the self