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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC television documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares. It originally aired in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in March 2007. The series consists of three 60-minute programmes which explore the modern concept and definition of freedom, specifically, "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom."
Original Release
03/11/2007 on BBC
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Cast
Name | Character |
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John Nash | Self |
Robert Spitzer | Self |
Jerome Wakefield | Self |
Paul McHugh | Self |
James M. Buchanan | Self |
Philip Mirowski | Self |
David Rosenhan | Self |
Thomas Frank | Self |
Adam Curtis | Narrator |
Robert Reich | Self |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | F***K You, Buddy | Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
2 | The Lonely Robot | Sunday, 18 March 2007 |
3 | We Will Force You to Be Free | Sunday, 25 March 2007 |
Cast
Name | Character |
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John Nash | Self |
Robert Spitzer | Self |
Jerome Wakefield | Self |
Paul McHugh | Self |
James M. Buchanan | Self |
Philip Mirowski | Self |
David Rosenhan | Self |
Thomas Frank | Self |
Adam Curtis | Narrator |
Robert Reich | Self |
John Major | Self |
Antony Jay | Self |
Stuart Hall | Self |
Clancy Sigal | Self |
Robert Parry | Self |
Morton Schatzman | Self |
James Strachan | Self |
Michael Ledeen | Self |
Thomas Schelling | Self |
Yevgeny Kiselyov | Self / Himself |