Overview
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…
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Adam Curtis
Self - Narrator (voice)
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger
Self (archive footage)
Gordon Brown
Self (archive footage)
Jane Fonda
Self (archive footage)
Ivana Trump
Self (archive footage)
Benjamin Netanyahu
Self (archive footage)
Tony Blair
Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
David Cameron
Self (archive footage)
Nigel Farage
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Hillary Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Muammar Gaddafi
Self (archive footage)
Victor Gotbaum
Self (archive footage)
Ruhollah Khomeini
Self (archive footage)
Timothy Leary
Self (archive footage)
John Perry Barlow
Self (archive footage)
Mark Abene
Self (archive footage) (as Phiber Optik)
Nancy Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Louis Farrakhan
Self (archive footage)
Richard Doty
Self (archive footage)
Robert Parry
Self (archive footage)
Elena Ceaușescu
Self (archive footage)
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Self (archive footage)
Jim Goodwin
Self (archive footage)
Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Self (archive footage)
Saddam Hussein
Self (archive footage)
Sean Connery
Self (archive footage)
Nicolas Cage
Self (archive footage)
Bashar al-Assad
Self (archive footage)
Hafez al-Assad
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Pearl
Self (archive footage)
Kim Kardashian
Self (archive footage)
Vladislav Surkov
Self (archive footage)
Wael Ghonim
Self (archive footage)
Seth Meyers
Self (archive footage)
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