S01E01 Part One - Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain
Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence – and You.
Can't Get You Out of My Head
S01E06: Part Six - Are We Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer?
How did we get here? And how do we get out?
Overview
In six films, Adam Curtis traces the different forces across the world that have led to now. It covers a wide range—including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opioids, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power.
Episodes
S01E02 Part Two - Shooting and F**king are the Same Thing
Dreams of revolution. But the ghosts of old power were still in the dreamer’s heads.
S01E03 Part Three - Money Changes Everything
Money replaced the grand dreams of the future. It was safer. But then money took on a life of its own.
S01E04 Part Four - But What If the People Are Stupid?
How power got inside your head in the 1990s. But you didn’t notice because you were busy shopping.
S01E05 Part Five - The Lordly Ones
How a fake version of Britain was invented. To hide what we had really done in the empire.
S01E06 Part Six - Are We Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer?
How did we get here? And how do we get out?
Cast
Adam Curtis
Himself (Narrator)
