Newsstand
Narcissism
Happiness Machines
The first episode of the four-part series introduces us to Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's American nephew, and his groundbreaking ideas on population control. "This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis
The Engineering of Consent
Episode two of four looks into the theories of Edward Bernays and Anna Freud, and how different organizations, CIA and corporate America included, applied them to society.
There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
Episode three of four addresses how the concepts established by Bernays were re-assessed during the 1960s, and led to the creation of the "Me" generation in the USA.
Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
The final episode explains how contemporary politicians on both sides of the Atlantic adopted and applied the ideas and techniques studied in this series.