Can't Get You Out of My Head

Created by Adam Curtis

On BBC iPlayer

A sprawling, essayistic documentary that weaves together global political and cultural history to argue that radical modernity is complicit in its own systems of control.

In six films, Adam Curtis traces the different forces across the world that have led to now. It covers a wide range—including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opioids, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power.