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 gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Genres

Cast

Adam Curtis

Narrator

Yevgeny Kiselyov

Self

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair

Self (archive footage)

Boris Yeltsin

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Putin

Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

Self (archive footage)