▶Inquiry The Great British Housing Disaster Adam Curtis, 1984
On demandAdam Curtis investigates the construction failures behind Britain’s post-war housing crisis.
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Adam Curtis
Power works through stories as much as institutions. Across decades of television, Adam Curtis draws on archive, music and unexpected connections to ask how societies arrive at ideas they take for granted. Explore the available films and episodes from the supplied collection.
▶A History of War Reporting (1983)
On demandTrumpets and Typewriters examines the history of war reporting. First broadcast on BBC One in July 1983, the documentary considers the journalism through which audiences encounter conflict.
▶BBC The major of Montemilone
On demandThe Mayor of Montemilone is a BBC documentary from 1984, centred on the Italian town named in its title. It appears here among the early television work gathered in this collection.
▶The Cost of Treachery
On demandThe Cost of Treachery is a BBC documentary broadcast on 30 October 1984. This archive programme sits among the collection’s early television works, before Curtis’s later multi-part documentary essays.
▶KINGDOM OF FUN
On demandKingdom of Fun appears here as an archive selection from the supplied Adam Curtis collection. The upload presents the programme under its original title without a further synopsis.
▶An Ocean Apart - Ep. 1 - Hats Off To Mr Wilson (World War I)
On demandDavid Dimbleby examines British-American relations during World War I.
▶An Ocean Apart - Ep. 2 - Home In Pasadena (The 1920s)
On demandDavid Dimbleby examines British-American relations during The 1920s.
▶An Ocean Apart - Ep. 3 - Here Come The British! Bang! Bang! (The 1930s)
On demandDavid Dimbleby examines British-American relations during The 1930s.
▶An Ocean Apart - Ep. 4 - Trust Me To The Bitter End (World War II)
On demandDavid Dimbleby examines British-American relations during World War II.
▶An Ocean Apart - Ep. 5 - If You Don't Like Our Peaches, Quit Shaking Our Tree (1945-1956)
On demandDavid Dimbleby examines British-American relations during 1945-1956.
▶An Ocean Apart - Ep. 6 - Under The Eagle's Wing (Post Suez Crisis to the 1970s)
On demandDavid Dimbleby examines British-American relations during Post Suez Crisis to the 1970s.
▶An Ocean Apart - Ep. 7 - Turning Up The Volume (The Falklands War and the 1980s)
On demandDavid Dimbleby examines British-American relations during The Falklands War and the 1980s.
▶Pandora's Box - Part 1: "The Engineer's Plot"
On demandThe opening episode of Pandora’s Box examines the Bolshevik ambition to organise society through scientific principles.
▶Pandora's Box E2: To The Brink of Eternity
On demandTo the Brink of Eternity is the second part of Pandora’s Box, Adam Curtis’s 1992 BBC documentary series. It continues the series’ investigation of the ambitions and consequences associated with scientific and technical power.
▶Pandora's Box - Part 3: "The League of Gentlemen"
On demandAdam Curtis examines British governments’ attempts to manage economic growth through expert models and targets.
▶Pandora's Box - Part 4: "Goodbye Mrs Ant"
On demandThe changing reputation of DDT becomes a way into the politics of scientific knowledge.
▶Pandora's Box - Part 5: "Black Power"
On demandKwame Nkrumah’s ambitions for an independent Ghana centre on the promise of industrial transformation.
▶Pandora's Box- Part 6: "A is For Atom"
On demandPandora’s Box concludes with the history of nuclear power and the extraordinary expectations placed upon it.
▶The Living Dead - Part 1: "On The Desperate Edge Of Now"
On demandAdam Curtis examines the uses of Second World War memory during the Cold War.
▶You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough | Adam Curtis Documentary | Episode 2 : The Living Dead
On demandYou Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough is the second episode of The Living Dead. Adam Curtis continues an investigation of memory and power, considering the past alongside attempts to control the human mind.
▶The Living Dead - Part 3: "The Attic"
On demandMargaret Thatcher’s appeal to a heroic British past provides the focus of The Living Dead’s final episode.
▶Inside Story Special: £830,000,000 - Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings
On demandThe collapse of Barings and the role of trader Nick Leeson open a history of an institution embedded in Britain’s financial establishment.
▶The Mayfair Set - Part 1: "Who Pays Wins"
On demandThe Mayfair Set begins with Colonel David Stirling and the expansion of the international arms trade in the 1960s.
▶The Mayfair Set - Part 2: "Entrepreneur Spelt S. P. I. V."
On demandAccountant and investor Jim Slater takes centre stage in the second part of The Mayfair Set.
▶The Mayfair Set - Part 3: "Destroy the Technostructure"
On demandCorporate raider James Goldsmith is the subject of The Mayfair Set’s third episode.
▶The Mayfair Set - Part 4: "Twilight of the Dogs"
On demandThe Mayfair Set closes as the era of the buccaneering tycoon begins to recede.
▶The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"
On demandEdward Bernays adapts his uncle Sigmund Freud’s ideas to the business of persuasion.
▶The Century of the Self - Part 2: "The Engineering of Consent"
On demandIn post-war America, psychological theories become tools for governments, businesses and intelligence organisations.
▶The Century of the Self - Part 4: "Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering"
On demandThe Century of the Self concludes with the migration of consumer research into electoral politics.
▶Adam Curtis - The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist
On demandAdam Curtis considers the changing role of the television journalist in a short contribution to Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe.
▶Moral Panics [2010] Adam Curtis
On demandA short Adam Curtis contribution to Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe, examining moral panics. The segment turns his documentary attention towards the alarms through which media culture frames social change and public anxiety.
▶Every Day Is Like Sunday
On demandAdam Curtis draws connections between Cecil King’s fall in the 1960s and the difficulties surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
▶Everything is Going According to Plan (2013) - Adam Curtis Short
On demandEverything Is Going According to Plan is a 2013 short by Adam Curtis. Presented as a standalone selection, it belongs to the filmmaker’s shorter work alongside his longer documentary series.
▶Adam Curtis - "Oh dear"-ism II and Non-Linear War
On demandAdam Curtis’s Oh Dear-ism II takes non-linear war as its subject. This short-form selection brings together the themes named in its title: a response of helpless concern and conflict that resists a straightforward account.
▶Living in an Unreal World A Film By Adam Curtis
On demandIn this short made available through VICE, Adam Curtis considers the difficulty of imagining a world beyond the system we inhabit.
▶HyperNormalisation 2016
On demandHyperNormalisation is Adam Curtis’s feature-length BBC documentary, released in October 2016.
▶Can't Get You Out of My Head - Part 1: Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain
On demandCan’t Get You Out of My Head begins with a fractured public world: inequality, distrust and polarisation intensify while the possibility of change feels remote.
▶Can't Get You Out of My Head - Part 2: Shooting and F**king are the Same Thing
On demandThe revolutionary movements of the 1960s confront the histories that their participants hoped to escape.
▶Can't Get You Out of My Head - Part 3: Money Changes Everything
On demandMoney displaces the grand political visions of an earlier era in this chapter of Can’t Get You Out of My Head.
▶Can't Get You Out of My Head - Part 4: But What If the People Are Stupid?
On demandAs trust in politicians declines, power finds other routes into everyday life.
▶Can't Get You Out of My Head - Part 5: The Lordly Ones
On demandThe Lordly Ones considers the national myths built around Britain’s past.
▶TraumaZone Series 1 1 Part One 1985 to 1989
On demandThis upload omits some material following copyright claims.
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▶5. Shifty: The Democratisation of Everything Adam Curtis 2025
On demandThis upload is incomplete: a section containing footage from The Hawking Paradox has been removed.