The Power Of Nightmares: The Rise Of The Politics Of Fear

Originally aired on BBC as a multi-part television series, this three-hour documentary aims to show how politicians who once proffered visions of milk, honey and national prosperity now hope to gain power through frightening and exaggerated visions of apocalypse and international terrorism. Sifting through the past 50 years of U.S. and Middle Eastern history, filmmaker Adam Curtis sets out to show how the neo-conservatives of Washington and radical Islamists of the Muslim world — two remarkably similar groups of idealists — both came to find power in fear mongering. In the first segment, "Baby It's Cold Outside," Curtis traces the influences of two very dif...