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The Power of Nightmares (2004) | ecco

The Power of Nightmares

The Power of Nightmares

1

Season

2004

8.7

A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.

Episode List

Baby It's Cold Outside

S1 • E1

Baby It's Cold Outside

How the illusory threat of a hidden network of terror has come to dominate politics throughout the world.

The Phantom Victory

S1 • E2

The Phantom Victory

How the US neoconservatives and the Islamists came together to fight the USSR in Afghanistan, and how both groups then tried to transform the world.

The Shadows in the Cave

S1 • E3

The Shadows in the Cave

Adam Curtis argues that in the wake of 09/11, neoconservatives have reconstructed the Islamists in the image of their most recent 'evil' enemy, the Soviet Union.

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Cast

Gilles Kepel

Self - Historian of Islamist Movement

William Kristol

William Kristol

Self

Richard Perle

Self - Assistant Secretary of Defense 1981-87

Azzam Tamimi

Self - Institute of Islamic Political Thought

Stephen Holmes

Self - Political Philosopher

Melvin Goodman

Melvin Goodman

Self - Head of Office of Soviet Affairs CIA 1976-87

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self - General Secretary Soviet Communist Party

David Brock

David Brock

Self

Paul Weyrich

Paul Weyrich

Self - Religious Activist - Republican Party

Paul Wolfowitz

Paul Wolfowitz

Self