The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)

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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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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.

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Director: Adam Curtis
Writing: Adam Curtis
Status: Ended
First aired: Mar 11, 2007
Network: BBC Two
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

3 hrs

3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Adam Curtis

Narrator

Yevgeny Kiselyov

Self

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair

Self (archive footage)

Boris Yeltsin

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Putin

Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

Self (archive footage)

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20071 Season60m episodes8.0

Documentary

TMDB8.0

Votes38

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Mar 11, 2007 · 1h 0m
Fuck You, Buddy
In this episode, Curtis examines the rise of game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical models of human behaviour filtered into economic thought with particular reference to the work of John Nash, who believed that all humans were inherently suspicious and selfish creatures that strategised constantly.
E2 · Airs Mar 18, 2007 · 1h 0m
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 lists of psychological symptoms which might indicate anxiety or depression were being used to normalize behavior and make humans behave more predictably, like machines.
E3 · Airs Mar 25, 2007 · 1h 0m
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. Curtis briefly explained how negative liberty could be defined as freedom from coercion and positive liberty as the opportunity to strive to fulfill one's potential. Tony Blair had read Berlin's essays on the topic and wrote to him in the late 1990s, arguing that positive and negative liberty could be mutually compatible. He never received a reply, as Berlin was on his death bed.

Details

Director: Adam Curtis
Writing: Adam Curtis
Status: Ended
First aired: Mar 11, 2007
Network: BBC Two
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

3 hrs

3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Adam Curtis

Narrator

Yevgeny Kiselyov

Self

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair

Self (archive footage)

Boris Yeltsin

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Putin

Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

Self (archive footage)

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