Adam Curtis

Biography

Adam Curtis (born 1955) is an award-winning British documentarian and writer. He has also worked as a television producer, director and narrator. He works for BBC Current Affairs. His programmes express a clear, albeit sometimes controversial, opinion about their subject.

Directed

1. HyperNormalisation (2016) — Director
2. The Century of the Self (2002) — Director
3. Bitter Lake (2015) — Director
4. The Power of Nightmares (2004) — Director
5. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011) — Director
6. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007) — Director
7. It Felt Like a Kiss (2009) — Director
8. Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021) — Director
9. Pandora's Box (1992) — Director
10. Newswipe with Charlie Brooker (2009) — Director
11. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022) — Director
12. The Living Dead (1995) — Director
13. The Mayfair Set (1999) — Director
14. The Way (2024) — Director
15. "Oh Dear"-ism II & Non-Linear War (2014) — Director
16. Shifty (2025) — Director
17. Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster (1984) — Director
18. Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh (1997) — Director
19. 40 Minutes (1981) — Director
20. £830,000,000 - Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings (1996) — Director
21. Every Day Is Like Sunday (2011) — Director
22. The Rise of “Oh Dear”-ism (2009) — Director
23. An Ocean Apart (1988) — Director
24. The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist (2007) — Director
25. The Road to Terror (1989) — Director
26. Inside Story (1974) — Director
27. Living in an Unreal World (2016) — Director
28. Paranoia (2010) — Director
29. The Mayor of Montemilone (1984) — Director
30. The Cost of Treachery (1984) — Director
31. Modern Times (1995) — Director
32. Selfridges (1983) — Director
33. Murdoch's Revolution (2010) — Director
34. The Seaside (1983) — Director
35. God Turn Me Into A Flower (2023) — Director
36. The Kingdom of Fun (1989) — Director
37. Bombay Hotel (1987) — Director
38. Trumpets and Typewriters: A History of War Reporting (1983) — Director
39. Tattoo (1995) — Director
40. Wedding Day - Not only Charles and Diana... (1982) — Director

Also appeared in

1. HyperNormalisation (2016) — Self - Narrator (voice)
2. The Century of the Self (2002) — Narrator
3. Bitter Lake (2015) — Narrator
4. The Power of Nightmares (2004) — Narrator
5. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011) — Self - Narrator (voice)
6. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007) — Narrator
7. Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021) — Self - Narrator (voice)
8. Pandora's Box (1992) — Narrator
9. The Living Dead (1995) — Narrator
10. "Oh Dear"-ism II & Non-Linear War (2014) — Narrator (voice)
11. Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh (1997) — Narrator
12. The Rise of “Oh Dear”-ism (2009) — Narrator (voice)
13. Every Day Is Like Sunday (2011) — Narrator
14. The Trap (1950)
15. Paranoia (2010) — Director
16. MK Ultra (2020) — Narrator