Adam Curtis — Director (11)
HyperNormalisation (2016) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
HyperNormalisation
director: Adam Curtis actor: Adam Curtis / Donald Trump
other title: Living in an Unreal World
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, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…
Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021) [TV] TMDB
Can't Get You Out of My Head
director: Adam Curtis actor: Adam Curtis
other title: Você Não Me Sai da Cabeça
In six films, Adam Curtis traces the different forces across the world that have led to now. It covers a wide range—including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opioids, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power.
Pandora's Box (1992) [TV] NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Pandora's Box
director: Adam Curtis actor: Adam Curtis
Pandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.
The Century of the Self (2002) [TV] TMDB IMDb
The Century of the Self
director: Adam Curtis actor: Adam Curtis / Anne Bernays
other title: El siglo del Yo
The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics.
Bitter Lake (2015) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Bitter Lake
director: Adam Curtis actor: Adam Curtis / George H. W. Bush
An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
director: Adam Curtis actor: Mikhail Gorbachev / Boris Yeltsin
What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.
Shifty (2025) [TV] IMDb NeoDB TMDB
Shifty
director: Adam Curtis
This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.
The Power of Nightmares (2004) [TV] TMDB IMDb
The Power of Nightmares
director: Adam Curtis actor: Gilles Kepel / Melvin Goodman
Examines how politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society.
It Felt Like a Kiss (2009) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
It Felt Like a Kiss
director: Adam Curtis actor: H. Rap Brown / Nikita Khrushchev
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 world and in the peoples' minds.