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The Power of Nightmares (I): Baby it's Cold Outside Part 1


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The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. The series consists of three one-hour films, consisting mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration, which were first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and have been subsequently aired in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

The films compare the rise of the American Neo-Conservative movement and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and noting strong similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is in fact a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.

Baby it's Cold Outside Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GopLcmExts&feature=...

Baby it's Cold Outside Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXMN9o2j9zE

Baby it's Cold Outside Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Wq1yC8Dxw

Baby it's Cold Outside Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwuOfqOvn_Y

Baby it's Cold Outside Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-mH0fwyOqw

Baby it's Cold Outside Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k47TphbP_-Q
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1 response // The Power of Nightmares (I): Baby it's Cold Outside Part 1

  • I watched the whole thing a while back. Personally I like this guy. He did another documentary on the effects of Freud's theory on American culture and politics. But this one is a little shaky.

    Not because he didn't do his research carefully enough but because it was made at a time when a lot of the information about both these groups wasn't quite available yet. It's worth watching and it offers a unique perspective on the issue, but you have to take some of its facts with some salt.
    Saladin

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