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Adam Curtis - Trumpets and Typewriters: A History of War Reporting (1983)
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Adam Curtis - "Italians" - The Mayor of Montemilone (1984)
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Adam Curtis - 40 Minutes: The Kingdom of Fun (1989)
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The Beautiful Films & Empty Ideas Of Adam Curtis (2-24-21)
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TraumaZone by Adam Curtis Part 1 1985 to 1989
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TraumaZone by Adam Curtis Part 2 1989 to 1991
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Adam Curtis - TraumaZone Part 3: Russia 1991 (2022)
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TraumaZone by Adam Curtis Part 4 1992 to 1994
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TraumaZone by Adam Curtis Part 5 1993 to 1996
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TraumaZone by Adam Curtis Part 6 1994 to 1998
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TraumaZone by Adam Curtis Part 7 1995 to 1999
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Adam Curtis - An Ocean Apart - Ep. 1: Hats Off To Mr Wilson - World War I (1988)
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Adam Curtis - An Ocean Apart - Ep. 2: Home In Pasadena - The 1920s (1988)
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Adam Curtis - An Ocean Apart - Ep. 3: Here Come The British! Bang! Bang! (1988)
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Adam Curtis - An Ocean Apart - Ep. 4: Trust Me To The Bitter End - World War II (1988)
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Adam Curtis - An Ocean Apart - Ep: 5: If You Don't Like Our Peaches, Quit Shaking Our Tree (45-56)
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An Ocean Apart - Ep. 6: Under The Eagle's Wing Post Suez Crisis to the 70's (1988)
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An Ocean Apart - Ep. 7: Turning Up The Volume The Falklands War & The 80's (1988)
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Adam Curtis - The Living Dead - Part 1: On the Desperate Edge of Now (1995)
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Adam Curtis - The Living Dead - Part 2: You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough (1995)
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Adam Curtis - The Living Dead - Part 3: The Attic (1995)
58:54
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1997 documentary: "Henrietta Lacks, the Way of the Flesh" (BBC, Adam Curtis) HeLA cells cancer
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Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Part 1/6 - Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain - Adam Curtis Documentary
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Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Part 2/6 - Shooting and F**king are the same - Adam Curtis Documentary
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Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Part 3/6 - Money Changes Everything - Adam Curtis Documentary
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Adam Curtis - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Part 4: But What If the People Are Stupid? (2021)
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Adam Curtis - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Part 5: The Lordly Ones (2021)
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Part 6 Can't Get You Out of My Head 2021 Are We Pigeon Are We Dancer
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Adam Curtis - Modern Time - The Way of All Flesh (1997)
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The Century of the Self Adam Curtis Documentary)
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Bitter Lake, 2015 - Adam Curtis
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Adam Curtis HyperNormalisation! - A 2016 BBC Documentary! [April 11th, 2019]
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The Power of Nightmares
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The Trap
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Adam Curtis - The Century of the Self - Part 2: 'The Engineering of Consent' (2002)
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The Century of the Self
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Bitter Lake, 2015 - Adam Curtis

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Another revealing & emotive deep dive from Adam Curtis - exploring the US-Saudi - Afghan sh!tshow & the history behind it.

“Increasingly we live in a world where nothing makes any sense. Events come and go like waves of a fever, leaving us confused and uncertain. Those in power tell us stories to help us make sense of the complexity of reality, but those stories are increasingly unconvincing and hollow. This is a film about why those stories have stopped making sense and how that led us in the west to become a destructive and dangerous force in the world.”
Adam Curtis.

Bitter Lake is a 2015 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that Western politicians have manufactured a simplified story about militant Islam, turning it into a good vs. evil argument informed by, and a reaction to, Western society's increasing chaos and disorder, which they neither grasp nor understand. The film makes extended use of newsreels and archive footage, and intersperses brief narrative segments with longer segments that depict violence and war in Afghanistan.

Bitter Lake attempts to explain several complex and interconnected narratives. One of the narratives is how past governments, including Russia and the West, with their continued, largely failing, interventions in Afghanistan, keep repeating such failures, without properly understanding the country's cultural background or its past political history and societal structure.

The film also outlines the US's alliance with Saudi Arabia, especially the US's agreement to buy Saudi oil, for control of a key energy supplier during the cold-war era, with Saudi Arabia gaining wealth and security in return. Part of the agreement provided that Saudi Arabia was allowed to continue its violent and fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, Wahhabism, free from external influence. Saudi support for Wahhabism fed many of the militant Islamic forces from the 1970s to the present, including the Mujahideen, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State.

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