The Living Dead (1995)

Genre

documentary film, documentary television film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British documentary series that investigates how politicians and other groups have shaped and exploited history and memory for their own purposes. It looks at both national and personal recollections to reveal these processes.

thoughtfulprobinganalyticalretrospectivemeasuredcontemplativeinformative

What happens

The Living Dead: Three Films About the Power of the Past is a BBC television documentary series, the second by British filmmaker Adam Curtis, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1995. In the series, Curtis examines the different ways that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used and manipulated by politicians and others. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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