Adam Curtis Films

  • : 1983
  • : 69
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  • BBC
  • Documentary

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1999
1999x1
The Mayfair Set: Part 1. 'Who Pays Wins'
Episode overview
18, 1999
The opening episode focuses on Colonel David Stirling and the birth of the global arms trade in the 1960s.
1999x2
The Mayfair Set: Part 2. 'Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V.'
Episode overview
25, 1999
The rise of accountant, game theorist and asset stripper Jim Slater, who became famous for writing an investment column in The Sunday Telegraph under the nom de plume of The Capitalist.
1999x3
The Mayfair Set: Part 3. 'Destroy the Technostructure'
Episode overview
01, 1999
This episode tells the story of how Sir James Goldsmith, through a series of corporate raids, became one of the world's richest men, and a victim of his own success.
1999x4
The Mayfair Set: Part 4. 'Twilight of the Dogs'
Episode overview
08, 1999
By the late 1980s, the day of the buccaneering tycoon was over. Tiny Rowland, Sir James Goldsmith and Mohamed Al-Fayed were the only ones left.

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