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The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear is a BBC television documentary series by Adam Curtis. It mainly consists of archive footage, with Curtis narrating. The series was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom in 2004. It has subsequently been aired in multiple countries and shown at various film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Original Release
10/20/2004 on BBC
US Release
02/26/2005
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Gilles Kepel | Self - Historian of Islamist Movement |
William Kristol | Self |
Melvin Goodman | Self - Head of Office of Soviet Affairs CIA 1976-87 |
Richard Perle | Self / Self - Assistant Secretary of Defense 1981-87 |
Michael Ledeen | Self / Self - Special Adviser to the US Secretary of State 1981-82 |
Stephen Holmes | Self - Political Philosopher |
Azzam Tamimi | Self - Institute of Islamic Political Thought |
Mikhail Gorbachev | Self - General Secretary Soviet Communist Party |
Joe Conason | Self - Author 'The Hunting of the President' |
Robert Bork | Self - Senior Member Federalist Society |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Baby It's Cold Outside | Wednesday, 20 October 2004 |
2 | The Phantom Victory | Wednesday, 27 October 2004 |
3 | The Shadows in the Cave | Wednesday, 03 November 2004 |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gilles Kepel | Self - Historian of Islamist Movement |
William Kristol | Self |
Melvin Goodman | Self - Head of Office of Soviet Affairs CIA 1976-87 |
Richard Perle | Self / Self - Assistant Secretary of Defense 1981-87 |
Michael Ledeen | Self / Self - Special Adviser to the US Secretary of State 1981-82 |
Stephen Holmes | Self - Political Philosopher |
Azzam Tamimi | Self - Institute of Islamic Political Thought |
Mikhail Gorbachev | Self - General Secretary Soviet Communist Party |
Joe Conason | Self - Author 'The Hunting of the President' |
Robert Bork | Self - Senior Member Federalist Society |
Paul Wolfowitz | Self |
David Brock | Self |
Milton Bearden | Self - CIA Field Officer - Afghanistan 1985-89 |
David Cole | Self - Professor of Law - Georgetown University |
Paul Weyrich | Self - Religious Activist - Republican Party |
Michael Lind | Self - Journalist and Former Neoconservative |
Bill Durodie | Self - Director International Centre for Security Analysis - Kings College |
Sam Schmidt | Self - Defence Lawyer Embassy Bombings Trial |
Vincent Cannistraro | Self - Head of Counter-terrorism CIA 1988-90 |
Ron Hansen | Self - Reporter - The Detroit News |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Peter Horrocks | Executive Producer |
Emanuele Pasquale | Executive Producer |
Stephen Lambert | Executive Producer |
Adam Curtis | Producer |
Lucy Kelsall | Producer |