• 2007
  • 1h
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

Summary The many ways in which Western notions of personal and political freedom are changing in the 21st Century are explored in this three-part documentary from writer and filmmaker Adam Curtis. View more details

  • 2007
  • 1h

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : John Nash Paul McHugh Robert Spitzer James M. Buchanan

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8.5

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 10, 2007

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary The many ways in which Western notions of personal and political freedom are changing in the 21st Century are explored in this three-part documentary from writer and filmmaker Adam Curtis. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 10, 2007

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
F***K You, Buddy
The ultimate political goal at the heart of our age is the idea of individual freedom. In the first episode of the trap miniseries, an answer to the question of what personal freedom means and how its meaning changed after world war 2 and during the cold war is investigated.
Episode 2 • Mar 17, 2007
The Lonely Robot
"Only two groups in society actually behave in a rational self-interested way in all experimental situations: one is economist themselves, the other is psychopaths."
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
We Will Force You to Be Free
Isaiah Berlin made distinctions between a 'positive' and revolutionary idea of freedom, which he believed was dangerous and violent, and the 'negative' freedom that allows people to live their lives without hindrance. From here, Adam Curtis takes us through the 20th Century, right up to the Iraq War. He shows that sometimes the revolutionary positive freedom is more desirable, by providing individuals with meaning in life, while the pursuit of democratic and capitalist negative freedom can be just as brutal.

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