Adam Curtis Films

  • : 1983
  • : 69
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  • BBC
  • Documentary

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2022
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TraumaZone: Part 1- 1985-1989
Episode overview
13, 2022
Perestroika. The dream of saving communism. But no-one believes in anything any longer. The managers loot the system. Soldiers return defeated in the war to liberate Afghanistan.
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TraumaZone: Part 2 - 1989-1991
Episode overview
13, 2022
There are no potatoes in Moscow. Things get worse. Then they get much worse as the rational Communist plan runs out of control everywhere. But McDonald’s opens in Moscow.
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TraumaZone: Part 3 - 1991
Episode overview
13, 2022
The empire strikes back. Hardliners attempt a coup. Power slips through their shaking hands. Oligarchs publish a manifesto. Money will replace all ideology. Yeltsin seizes power.
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TraumaZone: Part 4 - 1992-1994
Episode overview
13, 2022
Russia goes through the mirror into a chaotic dream world where nothing is stable any more. Dream visions of Russia's imperial past start to rise up. People cannot afford food.
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TraumaZone: Part 5 - 1993-1996
Episode overview
13, 2022
Russian society implodes. Millions of people fall into the abyss. Many live underground or in forests. The president attacks parliament with tanks saying he is saving democracy.
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TraumaZone: Part 6 - 1994-1998
Episode overview
13, 2022
Yeltsin believes a war in Chechnya will save him. The Oligarchs seize control of practically everything. In the upside down world gangsters become heroes for defending democracy.
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TraumaZone: Part 7 - 1995-1999
Episode overview
13, 2022
Suddenly the western bankers leave. Oligarchs take control and search for a new president to be their puppet. They choose Putin. Russians turn against “the curse of democracy".

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