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The Power of Nightmares
Documentary - 2004
The Power of Nightmares
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A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.
Director:
,
Adam Curtis
Cast:
,
Gilles Kepel
,
Melvin Goodman
,
Stephen Holmes
,
William Kristol
,
Michael Ledeen
,
Richard Perle
,
Azzam Tamimi
,
Fouad Allam
,
Abdullah Anas
,
Milton Bearden

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Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
180 min
Release date:
19 Oct 2004
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
4 wins & 1 nomination.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
As partisan filmmaking it is often brilliant and sometimes hilarious.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
6 Dec 2005
fresh:
Curtis' The Power of Nightmares finds that the basis of 21st century political power is fear. And for nearly three hours he makes it very hard to argue it's not.
– John Anderson,
Newsday,
8 Dec 2005
rotten:
A sprawling, intellectually ambitious documentary about the political phenomenon usually referred to in journalistic shorthand as the war on terror.
– A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
8 Dec 2005
fresh:
Though his bias is obvious, Curtis does his homework, getting the most damning evidence from interviews with the neocons themselves.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
9 Dec 2005
fresh:
Adam Curtis has become the most exciting documentary filmmaker of our time. He's at once a psychologist, a historian, a journalist, a wizard of images, and a fearlessly incisive cultural detective who delves beneath the hidden myths of the modern world.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Dec 2005
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