Adam Curtis Movies
- 2016
HyperNormalisation
HyperNormalisation7.42016HD
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,...
- 2015
Bitter Lake
Bitter Lake7.5432015HD
An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.
- 1989
The Road to Terror
The Road to Terror71989HD
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...
- 2020
MK Ultra
MK Ultra102020HD
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,...
- 1996
25 Million Pounds
25 Million Pounds81996HD
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...
- 2009
It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like a Kiss6.72009HD
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...
- 1997
Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh
Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh61997HD
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...
- 2016
Living in an Unreal World
Living in an Unreal World02016HD
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...
- 1984
The Mayor of Montemilone
The Mayor of Montemilone51984HD
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...
- 1989
The Kingdom of Fun
The Kingdom of Fun01989HD
The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.
- 1987
Bombay Hotel
Bombay Hotel01987HD
The luxurious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, contrasted with the poverty of the city's slums.
- 2010
Murdoch's Revolution
Murdoch's Revolution02010HD
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...
- 2011
Every Day Is Like Sunday
Every Day Is Like Sunday6.82011HD
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...
- 1984
Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster
Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster6.21984HD
David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.
- 1984
The Cost of Treachery
The Cost of Treachery11984HD
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,...
- 2010
Paranoia
Paranoia02010HD
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...
- 2007
The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist
The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist02007HD
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...
- 2009
The Rise of “Oh Dear”-ism
The Rise of “Oh Dear”-ism92009HD
Short film about how mainstream media simplify complex events and present them as "scattered terrible things happening everywhere, Oh Dear", leaving...
- 1983
The Seaside
The Seaside01983HD
Documentary about the town of Walton-on-the-Naze, directed by Adam Curtis
- 1998
Fishtank
Fishtank51998HD
An alcoholic, emaciated father; a grossly obese, tattooed mother; a goofy, hormone-addled brother—all together in a claustrophobic council...