Adam Curtis — Director (19)

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The Road to Terror (1989)
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In The Road to Terror, revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution. They speak as exiles in Paris, a city that is preparing to celebrate the glories of the first mass revolution of 1978. Behind its strange images, the struggle for power in the Iranian revolution has followed a pattern uncannily similar to many of the great revolutions of the past: just as 200 years ago in France, the Iranian revolution has gone down the old road from liberation to repression, the road to terror.

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The Rise of “Oh Dear”-ism (2009)
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Short film about how mainstream media simplify complex events and present them as "scattered terrible things happening everywhere, Oh Dear", leaving the public feeling powerless to do anything about them. Screened in the third episode of the first series of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe.

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The Century of the Self (2002)
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Adam Curtis actor: Adam Curtis / Anne Bernays …
other title: El siglo del Yo / 探求自我的世纪 …
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.

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Shifty (2025)
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This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.

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Pandora's Box (1992)
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other title: 潘朵拉的盒子
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.

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The Power of Nightmares (2004)
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Adam Curtis actor: Gilles Kepel / Melvin Goodman …
other title: 噩梦的力量:恐惧政治的崛起
Examines how politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society.

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TraumaZone (2022)
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亚当·柯蒂斯 actor: 米哈伊尔·谢尔盖耶维奇·戈尔巴乔夫 / 鲍里斯·尼古拉耶维奇·叶利钦 …
other title: 创伤地带:1985-1999年的俄罗斯 / Russia [1985-1999] TraumaZone …
这部纪录片使用BBC拍摄的素材,记录了苏联解体、俄罗斯资本主义和寡头的崛起,以及此事对俄罗斯社会各阶层的影响,最终导致普京上台。不同以往柯蒂斯的纪录片,这部片没有使用旁白或音乐,只通过屏幕上的字幕进行解说。

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It Felt Like a Kiss (2009)
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★ 8.3 13 ratings
亚当·柯蒂斯 actor: 罗克·赫德森 / 多丽丝·黛 …
other title: 宛若亲吻
The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959, using archival footage and US pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.

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The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2006)
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★ 8.4 5 ratings
亚当·柯蒂斯 actor: 列奥·施特劳斯 / 法兰西斯·福山 …
other title: 噩梦的力量:恐惧政治的崛起 / 噩梦威力:恐惧政治抬头 …
The Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media. At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists. Both were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. These two groups have changed the world but not in the way either intended. Together they created today's nightmare vision of an organised terror network.

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The Century of the Self (2002)
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★ 9.2 13 ratings
亚当·柯蒂斯 actor: Martin S. Bergmann / 托尼·布莱尔 …
other title: 自我的世纪
本系列探讨弗洛伊德精神分析学说对20世纪的巨大影响。 美国特纳出版公司最近出版的《20世纪人类全纪录》,把1900年西格蒙特·弗洛伊德《梦的释义》的出版作为20世纪的开端。这决不是别出心裁,而是把精神分析理论的问世当作一个划时代的标志,从此人类对自身的探索进入了一个新阶段,所以有些西方学者把20世纪称之为"精神分析的世纪".《梦的释义》出版100年来,人们对精神分析学说毁誉参半,研究弗洛伊德的着作就达几千部,特别是许多思想大师都对弗洛伊德做出了评价,这就使人们常常戴着大师们的眼镜去看待弗洛伊德,由此产生了一些"错误认同".正如当代意大利哲学家恩贝托·埃柯(UmbereoEco)所说,马可波罗在爪哇把犀牛认作独角兽,这种错误认同产生的原因在于"他正是他的"背景书籍"的牺牲品。"①经过100年的洗礼,弗洛伊德的思想价值不但没有减弱反而增强了。因此要摆脱以往人们对弗洛伊德的错误认同,强调个人对弗洛伊德原着的特殊理解,并把这种理解与当代学术界的研究成果结合起来是十分必要的。首先,弗洛伊德不仅是一个精神病专家,更重要的是,他作为一个人文科学思想家在历史上留下了宝贵的精神财富。 弗洛伊德从人类心理冲突的角度去关照潜意识的产生与作用。因此,他的发现不仅意味着医学的进步,还打破了人类思想与生活中的许多假象,扩展了人类对精神生活的感知,并以不能再视而不见的事实描述出潜意识这种复杂而真实的人文现象。他对梦的层层揭示触及了人类精神世界最难以接近的部分。他对导致人的梦境的潜意识的分析引导着人类更透彻地了解了自己——20世纪达利的绘画、劳伦斯的小说、希区柯克的电影、马勒的音乐,弗洛伊德对生命潜意识的透视在几乎所有人文领域里都留下了深刻的印记。 当弗洛伊德80岁诞辰来临之际,全世界200多位科学艺术家致信祝贺,他们说:“如果世间有什么行动可以被永远铭记的话,那就是对人类心灵的洞察。” 弗洛伊德,“有史以来第一位正视人类心灵问题的人”。

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HyperNormalisation (2016)
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★ 8.9 26 ratings
other title: 超正常化 / 生活在虚幻的世界 …
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…