← Adam Curtis: Shorts

Season 1

5 episodes · 2007

Adam Curtis' short films from Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and Newswipe programmes.

  1. 1The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist

    09 Oct 2007

    A short and possibly unfair history of the rise and fall of the TV journalist as a hero.

  2. 2Oh Dearism

    08 Apr 2009

    Are you finding the world’s news too depressing and scary to bear? This is the story of the rise of Oh Dearism in television news.

  3. 3Paranoia and Moral Panics

    09 Feb 2010

    Once upon a time politicians believed they could change the world… Adam Curtis reveals how the media has turned us all into paranoid weirdos.

  4. 4Oh Dearism II

    30 Dec 2014

    So much of the news is depressing and confusing, to which the only response is 'Oh Dear'. Has that defeatist response become a central part of a new system of political control?

  5. 5Living in an Unreal Worldfinale

    15 Dec 2016

    We live in a dream world, detached from reality. Adam Curtis reveals how, if you pull back and look at everyday life around you, you can see the cracks appearing through the shiny surface of the cocoon we live in.