Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47327 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-19
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 157 minutes

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This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today...

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Customer Reviews

very thoughtful and well argued
Curtis does an excellent job of expressing his somewhat-Chomskian take on the so-called War on Terror. Even if one does not accept his every argument, there is still much here to that provokes thought. His emphasis on fear--fear for its own sake, fear as a policy--brings to mind Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, and its argument of guns being a facet of public fear manufactured by the government for its own ends. Here, Curtis extends fear as a foreign policy, terror as a philosophy.

Low Quality DVD, but Excellent Docmentary
This is NOT an official BBC DVD, but appears to be a low quality MPEG4 conversion. The source is probably the Internet Archives. Don't waste your money on this DVD: simply download the same quality MPEG4 version from

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

And, while you're at it, download Adam Curtis's other excellent documentary, "The Century of the Self." (Don't bother buying the DVD available here at Amazon, mistitled "Century of Self" - again, another MPEG4 to DVD conversion)

Made me think
A bit dated now - but worth watching. Many of the "findings" are not new, but the development of a clear argument - which has members of the government - past and present - giving their positions, makes this a fair presentation. I find it hard to believe that this is "unbalanced" when both sides had the opportunity to present their point of view.