The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.
Adam Curtis
Narrator
Anne Bernays
Self
Robert Reich
Self
Edward L. Bernays
Self (archive footage)
Sigmund Freud
Self (archive footage)
Wilhelm Reich
Self (archive footage)
Tony Blair
Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)