Adam Curtis Movies

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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