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Adam Curtis Collection - 1984 - 2016
Kevin Adam Curtis (born 1955) is an English documentary filmmaker. Curtis says that his favourite theme is "power and how it works in society", and his works explore areas of sociology, philosophy and political history. Curtis describes his work as journalism that happens to be expounded via the medium of film. His films have won four BAFTAs. He has been closely associated with the BBC throughout his career.
This torrent is a collection of his entire works from 1984 - 2016
Pandora's Box (1992)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437029/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora's_Box_(TV_series)
Pandora's Box, subtitled A Fable From the Age of Science, is a BBC television documentary series by Adam Curtis looking at the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. It won a BAFTA for Best Factual Series in 1993.
Curtis deals with Communism in the Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy of the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana in the 1950s, and the history of nuclear power.
The documentary makes extensive use of clips from the short film Design for Dreaming, especially in the title sequence. Curtis's later series The Century of the Self and The Trap have similar themes to Pandora's Box.
The Living Dead (1995)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437020/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Dead_(TV_series)
The Living Dead: Three Films About the Power of the Past is the second major BBC television documentary series by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It was originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1995. In the series, Curtis examines the different ways that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used and manipulated by politicians and others.
Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh (1998)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796719/
The story, dating back to the 1950s, of the search for a cure to cancer, and the impact of Henrietta Lacks, the "woman who will never die" because her cells never stopped reproducing.
The Mayfair Set (1999)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0283201/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mayfair_Set
Looks at the birth of the global arms trade, the invention of asset stripping, and how buccaneer capitalists shaped the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, Sir James Goldsmith and Tiny Rowland—members of the elite Clermont Club in the 1960s.
The Century of the Self (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432232
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
The Century of the Self is a 2002 British television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It focuses on the work of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud, and PR consultant Edward Bernays. In episode one, Curtis says, "This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy."
The Power of Nightmares (2004)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430484/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear is a BBC television documentary series by Adam Curtis. It mainly consists of archive footage, with Curtis narrating. The series was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom in 2004. It has subsequently been aired in multiple countries and shown at various film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
The film compares the rise of the neoconservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, drawing comparisons between their origins, and remarking on similarities between the two groups. More controversially, it argues that radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organisation, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth, or noble lie, perpetuated by leaders of many countries—and particularly neoconservatives in the U.S.—in a renewed attempt to unite and inspire their people after the ultimate failure of utopian ideas.
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0979263/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(TV_series)
Explores the modern concept of freedom, specifically, "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom".
It Felt Like A Kiss (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1590078/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Felt_Like_a_Kiss
It Felt Like a Kiss is an immersive theatre production, first performed between 2 and 19 July 2009 as part of the second Manchester International Festival, co-produced with the BBC. Themed on "how power really works in the world", it is a collaboration between film-maker Adam Curtis and theatre company Punchdrunk, with original music composed by Damon Albarn and performed by the Kronos Quartet. The visitor is immersed in sets based on archive footage from Baghdad, 1963; New York, 1964; Moscow, 1959; in the Amygdala, 1959–1969; and Kinshasa, 1960. The title is taken from The Crystals' 1962 song "He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)", written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.
Every Day is Like Sunday (2011)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis
The rise and fall of press baron Cecil King, and the changing relationship between the public, politics and the media.
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1955162/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(TV_series)
In the series, Curtis argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity, and instead have "distorted and simplified our view of the world around us." The title is taken from a 1967 poem of the same name by Richard Brautigan.
Bitter Lake (2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4393514/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Lake_(film)
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated. Bitter Lake is a new, adventurous and epic film by Adam Curtis that explains why the big stories that politicians tell us have become so simplified that we can’t really see the world any longer. The narrative goes all over the world, America, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia - but the country at the heart of it is Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is the place that has confronted our politicians with the terrible truth - that they cannot understand what is going on any longer. The film reveals the forces that over the past thirty years rose up and undermined the confidence of politics to understand the world. And it shows the strange, dark role that Saudi Arabia has played in this. But Bitter Lake is also experimental. Curtis has taken the unedited rushes of everything that the BBC has ever shot in Afghanistan - and used them in new and radical ways. He has tried to build a different and more emotional way of depicting what really happened in Afghanistan. A counterpoint to the thin, narrow and increasingly destructive stories told by those in power today.
HyperNormalisation (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6156350/
Our world is strange and often fake and corrupt. But we think it’s normal because we can’t see anything else. HyperNormalisation - the story of how we got here.
Subtitles included where available.
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Files included:
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[li](2002) The Century of the Self 1 of 4 - Happiness Machines.mp4 872.9 MB[/li]
[li](2002) The Century of the Self 3 of 4 - Policeman Inside All Our Heads.mp4 814 MB[/li]
[li](2002) The Century of the Self 2 of 4 - The Engineering of Consent.mp4 773.1 MB[/li]
[li](2002) The Century of the Self 4 of 4 - Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering.mp4 751.6 MB[/li]
[li](2007) The Trap - 1 of 3 - What Happened To Our Dreams Of Freedom.avi 745.9 MB[/li]
[li](2007) The Trap - 2 of 3 - What Happened To Our Dreams Of Freedom.avi 745.9 MB[/li]
[li](2007) The Trap - 3 of 3 - What Happened To Our Dreams Of Freedom.avi 743.2 MB[/li]
[li](2009) It Felt Like A Kiss.avi 740.9 MB[/li]
[li](1997) The Way Of All Flesh.avi 729 MB[/li]
[li](2009) Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - Oh Dear-isms.avi 72 MB[/li]
[li](1984) The Great British Housing Disaster.avi 702.8 MB[/li]
[li](2011) All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace 2 of 3 - The Use And Abuse Of Vegetational Concepts.avi 700.9 MB[/li]
[li](2011) All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace 1 of 3 - Love And Power.avi 700.8 MB[/li]
[li](2011) All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace 3 of 3 - The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey.avi 700.5 MB[/li]
[li](2014) Oh Dearism II.mp4 69.2 MB[/li]
[li](1995) The Living Dead Part 2 of 3 - You Have Used Me As A Fish Long Enough.avi 563.8 MB[/li]
[li](2010) Charlie Brooker's Newswipe - Richard Nixon - Paranoia and Moral Panics.avi 56.9 MB[/li]
[li](2007) Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - Television Journalists.avi 56.1 MB[/li]
[li](2004) The Power Of Nightmares 2 of 3 - The Phantom Victory.avi 495.9 MB[/li]
[li](2004) The Power Of Nightmares 3 of 3 - The Shadows In The Cave.avi 492.4 MB[/li]
[li](1995) The Living Dead Part 1 of 3 - On The Desperate Edge Of Now.avi 479.8 MB[/li]
[li](1995) The Living Dead Part 3 of 3 - The Attic.avi 469.1 MB[/li]
[li](1999) The Mayfair Set 2 of 4 - Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V..avi 466.3 MB[/li]
[li](1999) The Mayfair Set 3 of 4 - Destroy the Technostructure.avi 466.3 MB[/li]
[li](1999) The Mayfair Set 4 of 4 - Twilight of the Dogs.avi 466.2 MB[/li]
[li](2016) Living in an Unreal World.mp4 46.8 MB[/li]
[li](1996) 25 Million Pounds.avi 458.1 MB[/li]
[li](1992) Pandora's Box 5 of 6 - Black Power.avi 406.6 MB[/li]
[li](1992) Pandora's Box 4 of 6 - Goodbye Mrs Ant.avi 400.2 MB[/li]
[li](1992) Pandora's Box 1 of 6 - The Engineer's Plot.avi 391.3 MB[/li]
[li](1992) Pandora's Box 2 of 6 - To The Brink of Eternity.avi 374.7 MB[/li]
[li](1992) Pandora's Box 6 of 6 - A is For Atom.avi 374 MB[/li]
[li](1992) Pandora's Box 3 of 6 - The League of Gentlemen.avi 373.5 MB[/li]
[li](1999) The Mayfair Set 1 of 4 - Who Pays Wins.avi 350.1 MB[/li]
[li](2004) The Power Of Nightmares 1 of 3 - The Rise of the politics of Fear.avi 344.2 MB[/li]
[li](2009) Oh Dearism I.mp4 32.5 MB[/li]
[li](2013) Everything is Going According to Plan.mkv 17.7 MB[/li]
[li](2016) HyperNormalisation.mp4 1.6 GB[/li]
[li](2015) Bitter Lake.mp4 1.4 GB[/li]
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