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Can't Get You Out of My Head

Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.

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WOMAN'S VOICE: Oh, my God!
Oh, my God. Please, God. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

WOMAN'S VOICE: Oh, my God! Oh, my God. Please, God.

Have you ever been
to a labour exchange? - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Have you ever been to a labour exchange?

# It was more like a dream
than reality - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# It was more like a dream than reality

We are living through strange days. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

We are living through strange days.

In America, in the 1950s,
there was a famous exhibition called - Can't Get You Out of My Head

In America, in the 1950s, there was a famous exhibition call...

# True love will find you in the end - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# True love will find you in the end

I don't want to be in this tunnel. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

I don't want to be in this tunnel.

# You'll find out
just who was your friend - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# You'll find out just who was your friend

DISTANT SIRENS, RUMBLING - Can't Get You Out of My Head

DISTANT SIRENS, RUMBLING

# Don't be sad, I know you will - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# Don't be sad, I know you will

The man who helped design it was
a refugee from Germany - Can't Get You Out of My Head

The man who helped design it was a refugee from Germany

# This is a promise with a catch - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# This is a promise with a catch

# Only if you're looking
will it find you - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# Only if you're looking will it find you

Edgar Mittelholzer had come
to England in the 1950s - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Edgar Mittelholzer had come to England in the 1950s

# Cos true love is searching too - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# Cos true love is searching too

These films are a history
of how we got to this place - Can't Get You Out of My Head

These films are a history of how we got to this place

# But how can it recognise you - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# But how can it recognise you

One of the most complex systems
ever created - Can't Get You Out of My Head

One of the most complex systems ever created

# But don't give up until - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# But don't give up until

They're searching for the remains
of a giant slave rebellion - Can't Get You Out of My Head

They're searching for the remains of a giant slave rebe...

And to understand the present,
you have to go back and see - Can't Get You Out of My Head

And to understand the present, you have to go back and see

Von Neumann then used
an early computer - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Von Neumann then used an early computer

And Mittelholzer himself became
angry with England. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

And Mittelholzer himself became angry with England.

Jiang Qing's great enemy, Deng
Xiaoping, was now all-powerful. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Jiang Qing's great enemy, Deng Xiaoping, was now all-po...

# Each day I walk along
this lonely street - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# Each day I walk along this lonely street

He had got rid of all Jiang Qing's
revolutionary dreams, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

He had got rid of all Jiang Qing's revolutionary dreams...

Until one night, Mittelholzer walked
up the hill by his house, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Until one night, Mittelholzer walked up the hill by his hous...

# I'm just living in a life
without meaning - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# I'm just living in a life without meaning

In 1966, engineers monitoring
Chinese television - Can't Get You Out of My Head

In 1966, engineers monitoring Chinese television

Deng Xiaoping's solution was
to go back into the past - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Deng Xiaoping's solution was to go back into the past

# Dark moon - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# Nothing ever change - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# Nothing ever change

Deng now ordered a vast
propaganda campaign to begin. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Deng now ordered a vast propaganda campaign to begin.

Mao Zedong and his wife,
Jiang Qing, had unleashed - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Mao Zedong and his wife, Jiang Qing, had unleashed

In the late 1950s, as the British
Empire was falling apart, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

In the late 1950s, as the British Empire was falling apart,

But the British,
led by Queen Victoria, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

But the British, led by Queen Victoria,

The court opens with
the traditional reading of names - Can't Get You Out of My Head

The court opens with the traditional reading of names

The Chinese propaganda even created
an early computer game, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

The Chinese propaganda even created an early computer game,

Now, the campaign said, the West
were trying to do the same again. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Now, the campaign said, the West were trying to do the same ...

What the Chinese were alleging
in their campaign - Can't Get You Out of My Head

What the Chinese were alleging in their campaign

And more and more of the doctors
he talked with - Can't Get You Out of My Head

And more and more of the doctors he talked with

At the same time, reports had
started to come back - Can't Get You Out of My Head

At the same time, reports had started to come back

By the middle of the 19th century,
those who ran Britain were - Can't Get You Out of My Head

By the middle of the 19th century, those who ran Britain wer...

But there was another country that
was also like a fairy-tale land... - Can't Get You Out of My Head

But there was another country that was also like a fairy-tal...

Valium had touched on something
inside human beings, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Valium had touched on something inside human beings,

And, in return, Britain had received
a vast wave of money - in silver - - Can't Get You Out of My Head

And, in return, Britain had received a vast wave of money - ...

Abu Zubaydah had been born
in Saudi Arabia, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Abu Zubaydah had been born in Saudi Arabia,

And that knowledge led to guilt. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

And that knowledge led to guilt.

TRANSLATION: Our teachers were often
paraded through the streets, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

TRANSLATION: Our teachers were often paraded through the str...

And Sackler knew - Can't Get You Out of My Head

And Sackler knew

PLUCKS MELODY - Can't Get You Out of My Head

The Dream Of The Red Chamber - Can't Get You Out of My Head

The Dream Of The Red Chamber

# Some say love is a burning thing - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# Some say love is a burning thing

You know, styles do change,
even if you think they don't. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

You know, styles do change, even if you think they don'...

EXPLOSIONS - Can't Get You Out of My Head

They slip back
and forth between the two. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

They slip back and forth between the two.

Jiang Qing, the wife of Mao Zedong, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Jiang Qing, the wife of Mao Zedong,

But suddenly, Mao Zedong
had turned on her. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

But suddenly, Mao Zedong had turned on her.

# See the cage, it called - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# See the cage, it called

# C'est a l'amour comme a la guerre - Can't Get You Out of My Head

# C'est a l'amour comme a la guerre

But at home, in both Britain
and America, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

But at home, in both Britain and America,

But now Jiang Qing's husband
was facing disaster. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

But now Jiang Qing's husband was facing disaster.

In Los Angeles in March 1991,
Rodney King was chased - Can't Get You Out of My Head

In Los Angeles in March 1991, Rodney King was chased

So, the bad news is we can have
nothing random in the system, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

So, the bad news is we can have nothing random in the system...

Despite offering no resistance,
he was beaten repeatedly - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Despite offering no resistance, he was beaten repeatedly

SHE SHOUTS - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Hey, black power. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Hey, black power.

He took it to the police,
but no-one was interested. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

He took it to the police, but no-one was interested.

The judges, she said,
were hypocrites. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

The judges, she said, were hypocrites.

Nonviolence is OK, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Nonviolence is OK,

In 1967, the Russians launched
a space flight - Can't Get You Out of My Head

In 1967, the Russians launched a space flight

Deng Xiaoping decided to experiment
with democracy. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Deng Xiaoping decided to experiment with democracy.

Some people hold grudges,
and I do. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Some people hold grudges, and I do.

Alice Faye Williams had been born
in North Carolina. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Alice Faye Williams had been born in North Carolina.

But Jiang Qing failed to
become a star. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

But Jiang Qing failed to become a star.

Wei Jingsheng worked as
an electrician at Beijing Zoo. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Wei Jingsheng worked as an electrician at Beijing Zoo.

The Black Panthers believed that
the only way to stop racism - Can't Get You Out of My Head

The Black Panthers believed that the only way to stop racism

BEEPING - Can't Get You Out of My Head

The wall was closed down,
all the posters hosed off, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

The wall was closed down, all the posters hosed off,

Wei Jingsheng's trial
was broadcast live on television. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Wei Jingsheng's trial was broadcast live on television.

Eduard Limonov grew up in Ukraine
in the 1950s. - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Eduard Limonov grew up in Ukraine in the 1950s.

Bernard Kouchner's humanitarian
vision of a world without borders - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Bernard Kouchner's humanitarian vision of a world witho...

Both Britain and America were
societies that had been - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Both Britain and America were societies that had been

One radical wrote, "Thug ambition is
completely predatory... - Can't Get You Out of My Head

One radical wrote, "Thug ambition is completely predato...

In 1994, Shakur was sent to jail
for five months - Can't Get You Out of My Head

In 1994, Shakur was sent to jail for five months

Shakur found himself in the new
world of mass incarceration - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Shakur found himself in the new world of mass incarceration

It seemed to show that President
Clinton cared more about the fears - Can't Get You Out of My Head

It seemed to show that President Clinton cared more about th...

But the white radicals, who were
buying Tupac Shakur's music, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

But the white radicals, who were buying Tupac Shakur's ...

Trapped by what they saw
as a danger below - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Trapped by what they saw as a danger below

One of the first of these,
in the early 19th century, - Can't Get You Out of My Head

One of the first of these, in the early 19th century,

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Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.

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Genre: documentary, history

Year: 2021

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Released: 11 Feb 2021

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