The Power of Nightmares

1 Season
3 Episode

The Power of Nightmares

The Rise of the Politics of Fear


(75 votes, average: 8.10/ 10)

60 minutes 2025 HD

  • Share

Examines how politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society.

img

Season

Similar

  • 2022
    img

    72 - A Gathering of Champions

    72 - A Gathering of Champions

    7.00 2022 HD

    img
  • 2021
    img

    9/11: One Day in America

    9/11: One Day in America

    8.32 2021 HD

    In official collaboration with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, this documentary series takes viewers through harrowing moments of the historic morning of...

    img
  • 2021
    img

    Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror

    Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror

    7.28 2021 HD

    Modern history can be divided into two time frames: before 9/11 and after 9/11. This five-part docuseries is a cohesive chronicle of the September...

    img
  • 2019
    img

    ETA, el final del silencio

    ETA, el final del silencio

    9.00 2019 HD

    On June 7, 1968, ETA assassinates José Pardines, a Guardia Civil officer. On May 3rd, 2018, a communiqué from the terrorist gang...

    img
  • 2021
    img

    Brennpunkt: Philips vei til terror

    Brennpunkt: Philips vei til terror

    1 2021 HD

    Philip Manshaus shot his stepsister Johanne before driving to the mosque to kill as many Muslims as possible. How did he become radicalized?...

    img
  • 2017
    img

    Road to 9/11

    Road to 9/11

    8.50 2017 HD

    Beginning with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, journalist Steve Coll chronicles the events that took place in the lead-up to the terrorist...

    img
  • 2017
    img

    False Flags with Richard Dolan

    False Flags with Richard Dolan

    7.00 2017 HD

    Richard Dolan guides us through the history and implementation of covert operations, and the resultant media coverage, to reveal the ulterior motives...

    img
  • 2025
    img

    7/7: The London Bombings

    7/7: The London Bombings

    1 2025 HD

    Documentary looking at the 2005 attack on London's transport system and the ensuing police investigation and the three-week hunt to catch the bombers.

    img
  • 2021
    img

    Bin Laden: The Road to 9/11

    Bin Laden: The Road to 9/11

    8.00 2021 HD

    From the shy, quiet son of a billionaire to global terrorist mastermind - a never-before-seen version of Bin Laden's rise to global infamy, featuring...

    img
  • 1970
    img

    The Man Who Shot the Pope: A Study in Terrorism

    The Man Who Shot the Pope: A Study in Terrorism

    1 1970 HD

    img

Recomendation

  • 2008
    img

    Wild China

    Wild China

    7.90 2008 HD

    The dazzling array of mysterious and wonderful creatures that live in China's most beautiful landscapes.

    img
  • 2011
    img

    All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

    All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

    8.28 2011 HD

    We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes...

    img
  • 2007
    img

    The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

    The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

    8.00 2007 HD

    Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have...

    img
  • 1999
    img

    The Mayfair Set

    The Mayfair Set

    6.70 1999 HD

    The Mayfair Set is a series of programmes produced by Adam Curtis for the BBC, first broadcast in the summer of 1999. The programme looked at how...

    img
  • 1988
    img

    The Men Who Killed Kennedy

    The Men Who Killed Kennedy

    7.44 1988 HD

    The Men Who Killed Kennedy is a nine-part United Kingdom ITV video documentary series by Nigel Turner about the John F. Kennedy assassination.

    img
  • 1999
    img

    Riddle of the Skies

    Riddle of the Skies

    10.00 1999 HD

    Since rumours of alien spacecraft emerged from Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, UFOs have increasingly been the subject matter of grainy, hand-held,...

    img
  • 1997
    img

    Skärgårdsdoktorn

    Skärgårdsdoktorn

    7.50 1997 HD

    TV series about the doctor Johan Steen who returns to Sweden after working in Somalia. He takes over his father in law's practice in the archipelago...

    img
  • 2006
    img

    When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

    When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

    7.60 2006 HD

    Spike Lee's award-winning documentary follows the events that preceded and followed Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans in...

    img
  • 2008
    img

    Dead Set

    Dead Set

    7.22 2008 HD

    Zombies are rampaging throughout Britain. Blissfully unaware of gory events outside, the Big Brother housemates are in for the ultimate eviction...

    img
  • 2019
    img

    The Spy

    The Spy

    7.41 2019 HD

    In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.

    img