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Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is an English documentary filmmaker. [1] Curtis began his career as a conventional documentary producer for the BBC throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s.
Adam Curtis is a British documentary filmmaker known for his critiques of modern society and politics. He has won four BAFTA awards and created acclaimed series such as The Power of Nightmares, Pandora's Box, and HyperNormalisation.
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- 'The Century of the Self' (2002) IMDb: 8.8/10. "Although we feel we are free, in reality, we - like the politicians - have become the slaves of our own desires."
- 'The Power of Nightmares' (2004) IMDb: 8.7/10. The Power of Nightmares is Curtis's definitive statement on the Bush era and the War on Terror. Consisting of three episodes, this series studies the rise of the neoconservative movement in the United States and its ideological battle with Islamic extremism.
- 'Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone' (2022) IMDb: 8.6/10. Curtis's most recent project is a seven-hour series chronicling the collapse of the Soviet Union, the turbulent '90s that followed, and the rise to power of Vladimir Putin.
- 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' (2021) IMDb: 8.5/10. Can't Get You Out of My Head (subtitled An Emotional History of the Modern World) is one of Curtis's most ambitious projects, a sweeping account of what he sees as the primary forces that have shaped the modern world.
Feb 23, 2021 · On Feb. 11, Curtis dropped his latest epic: Can’t Get You Out of My Head, an eight hour history of individualism, split up over six episodes. Subtitled “An emotional history of the modern ...
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Feb 15, 2021 · A new BBC documentary series from Bafta-winning filmmaker Adam Curtis has been broadly welcomed by critics. Several hailed the six-part series as "dazzling" and "terrifying", but others said it...
Can't Get You Out of My Head: With Adam Curtis. Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.
The extraordinary films of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis.
