Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.
June 24, 1949 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA
September 11, 1965 in Damascus, Syria
September 24, 1902 in Khomein, Iran
20 February 1951, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
October 6, 1930 in Kurdaha, Syria
7 October 1952, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
September 5, 1921 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
January 7, 1916 in Petresti, Dambovita, Romania
October 10, 1963 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
2 March 1931, Privolnoye, North Caucasus Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]
3 April 1964, Farnborough, Kent, England, UK
September 21, 1964 in Solntsevo, Lipetsk Oblast, U.S.S.R. [now Russia]
6 May 1953, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK
7 June 1942, Sirte, Libya
May 26, 1955 in Dartford, Kent, England, UK
January 26, 1918 in Scornicesti, Olt, Romania
4 August 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
9 October 1966, Marylebone, London, England, UK
26 October 1947, Chicago, Illinois, USA
January 8, 1923 in Berlin, Germany
22 October 1920, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
30 December 1946, Chicago, Illinois, USA
