The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom We Will Force You to Be Free (Season 1, Episode 3)
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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

We Will Force You to Be Free (Season 1, Episode 3)

TV Episode | Documentary

Isaiah Berlin made distinctions between a 'positive' and revolutionary idea of freedom, which he believed was dangerous and violent, and the 'negative' freedom that allows people to live their lives without hindrance. From here, Adam ...See moreIsaiah Berlin made distinctions between a 'positive' and revolutionary idea of freedom, which he believed was dangerous and violent, and the 'negative' freedom that allows people to live their lives without hindrance. From here, Adam Curtis takes us through the 20th Century, right up to the Iraq War. He shows that sometimes the revolutionary positive freedom is more desirable, by providing individuals with meaning in life, while the pursuit of democratic and capitalist negative freedom can be just as brutal. See less

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19 cast members

Name	Known for
Elliott Abrams Self Self See fewer	The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)
Isaiah Berlin Self (archive footage) (as Sir Isaiah Berlin) Self (archive footage) (as Sir Isaiah Berlin) See fewer	The Levin Interviews (1980)
Tony Blair Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Force of Nature (2022)
Kenneth Clark Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Civilisation (1969)
Francis Fukuyama Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2019)
Alexander Haig Self (archive footage) (as General Alexander Haig) Self (archive footage) (as General Alexander Haig) See fewer	The American President (2000)
Stuart Hall Self Self See fewer	The English Programme (1976)
Jim Howard Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Dalton: Code of Vengeance II (1986)
Yevgeny Kiselyov Self Self See fewer	Noveyshaya istoriya (1999)
Michael Ledeen Self Self See fewer	The Power of Nightmares (2004)
Ferdinand Marcos Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Der lachende Stern (1983)
Malcolm Muggeridge Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Heavens Above! (1963)
Robert Parry Self Self See fewer	The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)
Colin Powell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Madam Secretary (2014)
Vladimir Putin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Putin Interviews (2017)
Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Kings Row (1942)
Jeffrey Sachs Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	I Am Because We Are (2008)
Jean-Paul Sartre Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
Boris Yeltsin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Dokument utifrån (1971)