Adam Curtis

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Actor

26 May 1955 (70 years)
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.

Known For

  • HyperNormalisation
    HyperNormalisation2016
  • The Century of the Self
    The Century of the Self4 episodes
  • The Power of Nightmares
    The Power of Nightmares3 episodes
  • Bitter Lake
    Bitter Lake2015
  • Can't Get You Out of My Head
    Can't Get You Out of My Head6 episodes
  • All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
    All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace3 episodes
  • The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
    The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom3 episodes
  • Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
    Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone7 episodes
  • The Way
    The Way1 season
  • It Felt Like a Kiss
    It Felt Like a Kiss2009
  • Pandora's Box
    Pandora's Box6 episodes
  • Newswipe with Charlie Brooker
    Newswipe with Charlie Brooker2 seasons
  • The Mayfair Set
    The Mayfair Set4 episodes
  • Shifty
    Shifty5 episodes
  • The Living Dead
    The Living Dead3 episodes

Filmography

2021
Can't Get You Out of My Head · as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
HyperNormalisation · as Self - Narrator (voice)
2011
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace · as Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
Newswipe · as Self
2006
2004

2015
Bitter Lake · as Narrator
2014
Oh Dearism II · as Narrator (voice)
2011
2007
2002
1997
1995
The Living Dead · as Narrator
1992
Pandora's Box · as Narrator
1992
Love Hurts · as Ben

2025
Shifty · as Written By
2009
Newswipe · as Contributor