S1·E2 – The Engineering of Consent

2002-03-24 • 58 min

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.

Cast

Adam Curtis

Narrator

Anne Bernays

Self

Martin Bergmann

Self

Robert Reich

Self

Edward L. Bernays

Self (archive footage)

Sigmund Freud

Self (archive footage)

Anna Freud

Self (archive footage)

Wilhelm Reich

Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair

Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)