The Power Of Nightmares pushes a theory of rule by fear, and posits that the war on terror is an overblown hoopla. It compares and contrasts the historical development and rise to power of the Islamic Fundamentalists, and the Neo Cons. Download and watch it now.

[UPDATE - Argh, archive.org lost the mpeg. Never fear though, here's a mirror]
[UPDATE 2 - Damn, I killed the mirror's bandwidth. Google video has it, and you can also download it via bittorrent. (I downloaded the above torrents and found part 3 to be corrupt, which is why I started looking at archive.org in the first place. Grr!)]

Century Of The Self, by the same director (Adam Curtis), looks at the history of psychoanalysis in this century. Covering everything from Freud and Bernays through EST, the documentary takes many interesting tangents, including detailing the birth of PR. Equally essential viewing. Download and watch it now

[UPDATE - also, archive.org seem to have messed up the main page that I linked to above. Here are links to part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. Are archive.org unbelievably incompetent? Or what’s going on here? Nice of them to host the vids, but still, why would the pages change??]

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