The effects on Britains economic and political power brought by unscrupulous, reckless gamblers from the notorious gambling club in the 60s - the Clermont Club. All of them were instrumental in changing the structure of political power in Britain.
Pandora's Box, subtitled A fable from the age of science, is a six part 1992 BBC documentary television series written and produced by Adam Curtis, which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism.
The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during t...
An ambitious, powerful and surprising new drama, The Way (3x60’) taps into the social and political chaos of today’s world by imagining a civil uprising which begins in a small industrial town.
Meet the Driscolls - an ordinary family, in an extraordinary story of life, death and survival. Caught in a chain of events and power struggles that ripple out unleashing civil unrest, t...
The films trace different forces across the world that have led to now, not just in the West, but in China and Russia as well. It covers a wide range – including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opiods, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern cultu...
这部纪录片使用BBC拍摄的素材,记录了苏联解体、俄罗斯资本主义和寡头的崛起,以及此事对俄罗斯社会各阶层的影响,最终导致普京上台。不同以往柯蒂斯的纪录片,这部片没有使用旁白或音乐,只通过屏幕上的字幕进行解说。
HyperNormalisation tells the extraordinary story of how we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion - where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed - and have no idea what to do. And, where events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control - from Donald Trump to Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, and random bomb at...
本系列探讨弗洛伊德精神分析学说对20世纪的巨大影响。
美国特纳出版公司最近出版的《20世纪人类全纪录》,把1900年西格蒙特·弗洛伊德《梦的释义》的出版作为20世纪的开端。这决不是别出心裁,而是把精神分析理论的问世当作一个划时代的标志,从此人类对自身的探索进入了一个新阶段,所以有些西方学者把20世纪称之为"精神分析的世纪".《梦的释义》出版100年来,人们对精神分析学说毁誉参半,研究弗洛伊德的着作就达几千部,特别是许多思想大师都对弗洛伊德做出了评价,这就使人们常常戴着大师们的眼镜去看待弗洛伊德,由此产生了一些"错误认同".正如当代意大利哲学家恩贝托·埃柯(UmbereoEco)所说,马可波罗在爪哇把犀牛认作独角兽,这种错误认同产生的原因在于"他正是他的"背景书籍"的牺牲品。"①经过100年的洗礼,弗洛伊德的思想价值不但没有减弱反而增强了。因此要摆脱以...
The Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media. At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists. Both were idealists who were born out o...