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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

2007 1 Seasons 3 Episodes ⭐ 8.0 Documentary

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Fuck You, Buddy

In this episode, Curtis examines the rise of game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical model

EP 2

The Lonely Robot

The second episode reiterated many of the ideas of the first, but developed the theme that the drugs such as Prozac and

EP 3

We Will Force You To Be Free

The final program focused on the concepts of positive and negative liberty introduced in the 1950s by Isaiah Berlin. Cur

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Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis

Narrator

Yevgeny Kiselyov

Yevgeny Kiselyov

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair

Tony Blair

Self (archive footage)

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

Self (archive footage)