The Century of the Self

The Engineering of Consent

E2    Mar 24, 2002    58m    TV-MA
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The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.
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Cast of The Engineering of Consent
  • 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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