| Adam Curtis |
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1955 |
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| Occupation |
Film Maker |
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| Known for |
The BBC's most interesting documentaries |
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How did this guy get to work for the BBC, and how does he keep his job? Together with John Pilger, he has been called a 'token leftie'<ref>http://holdupnow.com/an-interview-with-michael-chanan/</ref> so the BBC has a counter example to the claim that they only ever produce corporate friendly junk? One clue is provided by fellow film-maker, Scott Noble:
 Curtis is an extremely talented filmmaker with an immense repository of archival footage at his disposal (some of which I utilized in Psywar), and he puts out a great product. But I also find that he tends to exaggerate the importance of particular individuals, groups and fanciful ideas in lieu of basic class analysis; he also appears to self-censor, often at critical junctures. I don’t recall seeing the slightest hint of skepticism about the official story of Sep 11th in The Power of Nightmares.
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— Scott Noble
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He has made some amazing documentaries, and they are public domain on archive.org,
many of which have been adapted on the show:
- Bitter Lake (2015)
- Everything is Going According to Plan (2013)
- Every Day Is Like Sunday (2011)
- All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (2011)
- Love and Power
- The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts 555
- The Monkey In The Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
- It Felt Like A Kiss (2009)
- The Rise and Fall of The TV Journalist (2007)
- The Trap (2007)
- Fuck you, Buddy 370
- The Lonely Robot 371
- We Will Force You To Be Free 372
- The Power of Nightmares (2004)
- Baby It's Cold Outside 235
- The Phantom Victory 236
- The Shadows in the Cave 237
- The Century of Self (2002)
- Happiness Machines 315
- The Engineering of Consent 316
- There is a Policeman Inside All Our Head: He Must Be Destroyed 317
- Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering 318
- The Mayfair Set (1999)
- Who Pays Wins
- Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V.
- Destroy the Technostructure
- Twilight of the Dogs
- Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh (1997)
- 25 Million Pounds (1996) 601
- The Living Dead (1995)
- On The Desperate Edge of Now 504
- You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough
- The Attic
- Pandora's Box (1992)
- The Engineer's Plot
- To The Brink of Eternity
- The League of Gentlemen 629
- Goodbye Mrs. Ant 524
- Black Power 526
- A is For Atom 548
- Inside Story: The Road To Terror (1989)
- 40 Minutes: The Kingdom of Fun (1989)
- An Ocean Apart - Episode One "Hats Off to Mr. Wilson" (1988)
- 40 Minutes: Bombay Hotel (1987)
- The Cost Of Treachery (1984)
- Italians: Mayor of Montemilone (1984)
- The Great British Housing Disaster (1984)
- The Tuesday Documentary: Trumpets and Typewriters (1983)
- Just Another Day: Walton on the Naze (1983)
See Also
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