The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics.
4 Episodes
  • Happiness Machines
    Happiness MachinesEpisode 1
  • The Engineering of Consent
    The Engineering of ConsentEpisode 2
  • There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed
    There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be DestroyedEpisode 3
  • Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
    Eight People Sipping Wine in KetteringEpisode 4
Cast of Miniseries
  • Adam CurtisNarrator
  • Anne BernaysSelf
  • Martin BergmannSelf
  • Robert ReichSelf
  • Edward L. BernaysSelf (archive footage)
  • Sigmund FreudSelf (archive footage)
  • Anna FreudSelf (archive footage)
  • Wilhelm ReichSelf (archive footage)
  • Tony BlairSelf (archive footage)
  • Margaret ThatcherSelf (archive footage)
  • Bill ClintonSelf (archive footage)
  • Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)

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