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SAVE YOUR KISSES FOR ME
Adam Curtis
HOW THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, HAMAS AND THE ISRAELI RIGHT BECAME CO-DEPENDENTS IN AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP
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WHILE THE BAND PLAYED ON
Adam Curtis
I have always been fascinated by the way music can completely change the way you watch film - and how you feel as you watch the images.
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HE'S BEHIND YOU
Adam Curtis
HOW COLONEL GADDAFI AND THE WESTERN ESTABLISHMENT TOGETHER CREATED A PANTOMIME WORLD Things come and go in the news cycle like waves of fever. A year ago Colonel Gaddafi was killed and an avalanche of camera phone footage of his last minutes was played again and again on the news channels...
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MENTAL CHANNEL NUMBER ONE - THE MAN FROM MARS
Adam Curtis
To celebrate today's successful landing on Mars I thought I would show a film of a man who claimed to have got to Mars a long time ago. He did this back in the late 1950s by communicating telepathically with the beings who inhabited the Red Planet.
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HOW TO KILL A RATIONAL PEASANT
Adam Curtis
AMERICA'S DANGEROUS LOVE AFFAIR WITH COUNTERINSURGENCY At the beginning of this year one of the weirdest characters ever to become involved in the present Afghan war died. He was called Jack Idema and he was a brilliant con-man.
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IF YOU TAKE MY ADVICE - I'D REPRESS THEM
Adam Curtis
Bahrain, along with Syria, has become a symbol of the failure of the Arab Spring to deliver real democracy and freedom across the Arab world...
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WHITE NEGRO FOR MAYOR
Adam Curtis
This Thursday Londoners will vote to elect a new city mayor, and I thought it would be a good moment to put up a great documentary about how Norman Mailer stood for Mayor of New York in 1969.
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RUPERT MURDOCH - A PORTRAIT OF SATAN
Adam Curtis
Today the Rupert Murdoch story has finally reached the issue that has been lurking in the shadows of this whole saga - and what has always made people most uneasy about him.
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BODYBUILDING AND NATION-BUILDING
Adam Curtis
At first sight the search for peace and stability in Iraq, and the search for physical and mental fitness in the extreme contortions of modern Yoga seem to have absolutely nothing in common. But curiously they do.
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WHO WOULD GOD VOTE FOR?
Adam Curtis
When you bring God into politics very strange things happen. You can see this now in both America and Iran - in their elections and also in the growing confrontation between them. But it wasn't always like this...
