Movie
HyperNormalisation
Overview
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…
Details
- Release date
- 2016-10-25
- Runtime
- 167 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Status
- Released
- Production
- BBC
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Adam Curtis as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Donald Trump as Self (archive footage)
- Vladimir Putin as Self (archive footage)
- Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage)
- Henry Kissinger as Self (archive footage)
- Gordon Brown as Self (archive footage)
- Jane Fonda as Self (archive footage)
- Ivana Trump as Self (archive footage)
- Benjamin Netanyahu as Self (archive footage)
- Tony Blair as Self (archive footage)
- George W. Bush as Self (archive footage)
- Barack Obama as Self (archive footage)
Crew
- Adam Curtis - Director
- Adam Curtis - Writer
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