2022-01-16 — Media Tracker

Watched on: BBC iPlayer · 34/20 min · History, Documentaries, Films, Politics

Adam Curtis's epic film explains how everyone - Britain, America and Russia - got lost in Afghanistan. How a toxic blend of arrogance and ignorance led to the present disaster.

pid:p02gyz6b | BBC

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The Power of Nightmares S1E1 — Baby It's Cold Outside ~

Watched on: BBC iPlayer · 57/60 min · Documentary, Documentaries, Politics

How the illusory threat of a hidden network of terror has come to dominate politics throughout the world. A series by Adam Curtis.

pid:p088s5rv | BBC Two

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The Power of Nightmares S2E2 — The Phantom Victory ~

Watched on: BBC iPlayer · 6/60 min · Documentary, Documentaries, Politics

How the US neoconservatives and the Islamists came together to fight the USSR in Afghanistan, and how both groups then tried to transform the world.

pid:p088s6zx | BBC Two

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Five Came Back S1E2 — Combat Zones ~

Watched on: Netflix · 24/67 min · Documentary, War / Politics

Now in active service, each director learns his cinematic vision isn't always attainable within government bureaucracy and the variables of war.

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