Adam Curtis Movies

Short film for Vice Media about the illusion of stability, freedom, and prosperity in the West, comparing it to life in the Soviet Union during the...

Genre: Documentary

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Short film for Vice Media about the illusion of stability, freedom, and prosperity in the West, comparing it to life in the Soviet Union during the...

Genre: Documentary

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Behind the scenes at Selfridges, a department store on Oxford Street, London.

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Behind the scenes at Selfridges, a department store on Oxford Street, London.

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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...

Genre: History

Cast: H. Rap Brown

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Jones

This short film uses the history and figure of the Murdoch media empire as a vast invasive machine, to draw parallels to new media machines such as...

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An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

25 Million Pounds details the collapse of Barings Bank in the mid 1990s primarily by a broker called Nick Leeson, who lost £827 million ($1.3...

Genre: Documentary

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In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Garrett

In 1949, at the height of the Cold War, the British and American Governments decided to fight back at the growing Soviet Empire with a secret plan,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian Holm

As we wait to see whether Rupert Murdoch will fall from power and lose control of News International, Every Day is Like Sunday tells the forgotten...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

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...

Genre: History

Cast: H. Rap Brown

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...

Genre: History

Cast: H. Rap Brown

An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

Documentary about the town of Walton-on-the-Naze, directed by Adam Curtis

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Cast: John Pitman

An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

Short film about how mainstream media simplify complex events and present them as "scattered terrible things happening everywhere, Oh Dear", leaving...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

Short film about how mainstream media simplify complex events and present them as "scattered terrible things happening everywhere, Oh Dear", leaving...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

Short film using the paranoia of Richard Nixon to explore how a similar outlook on life has been propagated on a larger social scale in the new media...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

Short film using the paranoia of Richard Nixon to explore how a similar outlook on life has been propagated on a larger social scale in the new media...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

Short film examining the global events of 2014 to reveal a chaotic morass, the reporting of which is increasingly difficult to comprehend in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

Short film examining the global events of 2014 to reveal a chaotic morass, the reporting of which is increasingly difficult to comprehend in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

Short film chronicling the transformation of mainstream media and the balance of political power in the last few decades by looking at how the role...

Genre: Documentary

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Short film chronicling the transformation of mainstream media and the balance of political power in the last few decades by looking at how the role...

Genre: Documentary

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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,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

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,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Pennington

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Bower

As we wait to see whether Rupert Murdoch will fall from power and lose control of News International, Every Day is Like Sunday tells the forgotten...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adam Curtis

An alcoholic, emaciated father; a grossly obese, tattooed mother; a goofy, hormone-addled brother—all together in a claustrophobic council...

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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...

Genre: History

Cast: H. Rap Brown

Visual accompaniment to Weyes Blood's 'God Turn Me Into A Flower', played alongside a performance of the song during her 2023 tour.

Genre: Music

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Visual accompaniment to Weyes Blood's 'God Turn Me Into A Flower', played alongside a performance of the song during her 2023 tour.

Genre: Music

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David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Jones

In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Garrett

Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Pennington

In 1949, at the height of the Cold War, the British and American Governments decided to fight back at the growing Soviet Empire with a secret plan,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian Holm

In 1949, at the height of the Cold War, the British and American Governments decided to fight back at the growing Soviet Empire with a secret plan,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian Holm

The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of CIA mind control experiments during the Cold War,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Shanelle Clemenson

The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian Holm

The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian Holm

The luxurious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, contrasted with the poverty of the city's slums.

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The history of war correspondents.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Jessel

Music video directed by Adam Curtis, featuring Gerard Murphy. Taken from the Gang of Four 1995 album “Shrinkwrapped”.

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Cast: Gerard Murphy