Product Details

• Directors: Adam Curtis
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: successunlimitedpub.com
• DVD Release Date: November 19, 2007
• Run Time: 157 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ZI3G30
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #33,340 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Item Name: The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis; Studio: successunlimitedpub.com

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This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today...

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very thoughtful and well argued, December 13, 2007

By	S. Newton (Alameda, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Curtis does an excellent job of expressing his somewhat-Chomskian take on the so-called War on Terror. Even if one does not accept his every argument, there is still much here to that provokes thought. His emphasis on fear--fear for its own sake, fear as a policy--brings to mind Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, and its argument of guns being a facet of public fear manufactured by the government for its own ends. Here, Curtis extends fear as a foreign policy, terror as a philosophy.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low Quality DVD, but Excellent Docmentary, April 15, 2009

By	C. Marquardt (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is NOT an official BBC DVD, but appears to be a low quality MPEG4 conversion. The source is probably the Internet Archives. Don't waste your money on this DVD: simply download the same quality MPEG4 version from

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

And, while you're at it, download Adam Curtis's other excellent documentary, "The Century of the Self." (Don't bother buying the DVD available here at Amazon, mistitled "Century of Self" - again, another MPEG4 to DVD conversion)

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best I have found!!!, June 22, 2007

By	M. Jirmanos "Amazon Junkie" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis (DVD)

This is by FAR the best copy of this documentary on DVD that I have found. It is on DVD-R but it played great in my DVD player, and on my computer.

This is a fascinating documentary about the origins and similarities between the American Neoconservatives and the Islamic Fundamentalists, using archive footage and interviews to describe their extremist agenda of paranoia and fear. Originally aired in the UK by the BBC just before the 2004 American elections, it has not yet been shown in the States because of its controversial nature.

This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today.

"Both [the Islamists and Neoconservatives] were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure. These two groups have changed the world, but not in the way that either intended. Together, they created today's nightmare vision of a secret, organized evil that threatens the world. A fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. And those with the darkest fears became the most powerful.

This DVD contains all 3 parts of the BBC Documentary:

I: Baby It's Cold Outside
II: The Phantom Victory
III: The Shadows In The Cave