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All his documentary series are worth watching. These are

Hypernormalisation

Bitter Lake

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Every Day is like Sunday

The Power of Nightmares

The Century of the Self

The Trap

Pandora's Box

The Mayfair Set

Inside Story

Inquiry. The Great British Housing Disaster

The last one is particularly relevant after the Grenfell Tower Fire.

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In the context of Curtis I also like to point out James Burke's original "Connections" series. It's a deconstruction of history that is about ideas, rather than places and dates, and the first season is structured around the development of arguably the 20th century's most ambitious achievement (no spoilers:) The last episode is the most Curtis-esque in asking questions about managing human progress.

Pandora's Box is my favorite introduction to Adam Curtis. In short, the theme is "times that people thought they knew what they were doing, but actually didn't."

Watching now, I've seen most of his stuff but oddly never watched this one, thanks.

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