Miniseries poster

Miniseries

(2002)

Cast

Adam Curtis as Narrator
Adam Curtis

as Narrator

Anne Bernays as Self
Anne Bernays

as Self

Martin Bergmann as Self
Robert Reich as Self
Robert Reich

as Self

Edward L. Bernays as Self (archive footage)
Edward L. Bernays

as Self (archive footage)

Sigmund Freud as Self (archive footage)
Sigmund Freud

as Self (archive footage)

Anna Freud as Self (archive footage)
Anna Freud

as Self (archive footage)

Wilhelm Reich as Self (archive footage)
Wilhelm Reich

as Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair as Self (archive footage)
Tony Blair

as Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher as Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher

as Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton as Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton

as Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan

as Self (archive footage)

Episodes

Happiness Machines poster

Happiness Machines 8.3

March 17, 2002

The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the publi…

The Engineering of Consent poster

The Engineering of Consent 0.0

March 24, 2002

The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and …

There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed poster

There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed 0.0

March 31, 2002

In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were insp…

Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering poster

Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering 0.0

April 7, 2002

How both the Labour Party in Britain and the Democrats in America have sought to gain power through use of the focus gr…