Monday, June 8, 2009

More Adam Curtis documentaries

Monday, June 8, 2009
The Living Dead 1 of 3: On the Desperate Edge of Now
This documentary explores how the narrative setting up World War Two as "the good war" required significant parts of the past to be buried, ordinary Germans to be made into unfathomable monsters, and the experiences of the soldiers to be forever at odds with the accepted myth.



The Living Dead 2 of 3: You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough
A history of brainwashing and mind control, and its mutation into artificial intelligence.



The Living Dead 3 of 3: The Attic
Margaret Thatcher's use of, and imprisonment by, Winston Churchill's patriotic but problematic vision of Britain.

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