Interesting movie...

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...as featured article on Wikip*dia today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares">The Power of Nightmares

The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Its three one-hour parts consist mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration. The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been aired in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is in fact a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3755686.stm">Part 1 official page
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3951615.stm">Part 2 official page
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3970901.stm">Part 3 official page

I have never seen this, but have heard it mentioned in passing several times.

Anyone ever seen this? If so, what do you think about it?

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