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Adam Curtis (born 1955) is an award-winning British documentarian and writer. He has also worked as a television producer, director and narrator. He works for BBC Current Affairs. His programmes express a clear, albeit sometimes controversial, opinion about their subject.
Total trailers found: 25
27 July 2011
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 story of the dramatic downfall of Cecil King—the newspaper mogul who used to dominate British media in the 1960s, before Rupert Murdoch arrived.
29 March 1983
Behind the scenes at Selfridges, a department store on Oxford Street, London.
19 March 1997
In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body.
03 August 2007
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 of the broadcast journalist has changed since the 1950s.
15 October 2016
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 1970s.
30 October 1984
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, the Albanian Subversion, in which the CIA and MI6 attempted to overthrow the Albanian government and to weaken the Soviet Union and the role of double agent Kim Philby.
25 October 2016
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care.
03 August 2010
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 age and the resulting moral panics and immobilisation of politics.
24 December 1989
In The Road to Terror, revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution.
03 August 2009
Short film about how mainstream media simplify complex events and present them as "scattered terrible things happening everywhere, Oh Dear", leaving the public feeling powerless to do anything about them.
13 December 1998
An alcoholic, emaciated father; a grossly obese, tattooed mother; a goofy, hormone-addled brother—all together in a claustrophobic council flat.
30 April 1987
The luxurious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, contrasted with the poverty of the city's slums.
24 January 2015
An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.
02 April 2020
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, with documentary segments by Adam Curtis.
02 July 2009
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.
12 June 1996
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.
01 May 2023
Visual accompaniment to Weyes Blood's 'God Turn Me Into A Flower', played alongside a performance of the song during her 2023 tour.
26 October 1984
Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor.
03 August 2014
Short film examining the global events of 2014 to reveal a chaotic morass, the reporting of which is increasingly difficult to comprehend in the context of the 24-hour news cycle and the internet.
19 January 1989
The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.
19 April 1983
Documentary about the town of Walton-on-the-Naze, directed by Adam Curtis
04 September 1984
David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.
19 July 1983
The history of war correspondents.
01 January 2010
This short film uses the history and figure of the Murdoch media empire as a vast invasive machine, to draw parallels to new media machines such as Google that are not only more invasive, but more pervasive than anything the Murdoch media empire has managed.
19 September 1995
Music video directed by Adam Curtis, featuring Gerard Murphy. Taken from the Gang of Four 1995 album “Shrinkwrapped”.
