I believe this is excerpted from
The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis. Either that or another docu that's been posted before.

Thank you

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*promote for my favourite Adam Curtis documentary.

*promote for my favourite Adam Curtis documentary.

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I heart Adam Curtis. I wish all his documentaries were done in this style, layered thick with British wit.

This goes along really well as a companion viewing to Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares, as well as Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent. Check it out if you haven't already, Jeff. http://joox.net/cat/44/id/1031075

I'll see about finding it some place from where I can properly post it, but my queue is all full at the moment.

Trials of Henry Kissinger was made by Eugene Jarecki who also made the superb WHY WE FIGHT.

Jarecki and Adam Curtis are the best of the new batch of "polemicist" documentarians. Both are much smarter and more observant than Michael Moore or the OUTFOXED/Walmart guy.

@Wumpus: smartly said. University must be easy for you, no?

I have to say, Part 1 was a bit more interesting with the Cold War / game theory / f*ck you buddy stuff, but this is still well worth watching. Adam Curtis is always good in my experience so far.

You could be right gluonium, I do respect the work Adam Curtis, but it's cool to be skeptical in fact it's encouraged to be skeptical. However this clip in particular is a well documented piece of history and very much not bullshit.

It's a documentary about psychology so further analysis is always encouraged

Adam Curtis = More education in 2 hours then 2 years in University.

this is directed by Adam Curtis, who did "The Power of Nightmares" documentary. it's the same style...

Operation PBSUCCESS was the name of the CIA covert action.

"From Episode Two of the film series "The Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays started his business life as a publicist. While still in his twenties, he was part of the propaganda effort that drove the United States into in World War I (WW I.)

He personally advised several US presidents starting with Woodrow Wilson and counseled numerous corporations and business associations. Hitler's propaganda chief and Nazi henchman Joseph Goebbels was a reader and fan of Bernay's writing in particular Bernay's book "Crystalizing Public Opinion."

In this short excerpt from Curtis's film we see one example of Bernays at work.

Bernays was one of the engineers of the Cold War. He perfected the technique of manufacturing a distant but ever-threatening enemy and then creating a constant state of fear by generating false news reports that endlessly re-stated and exagerated the threat.

The stated purpose of Bernay's methods was to give those in power greater control over what he called "the mass mind." It worked well in the 1950s and sadly, it appears to be working quite well today... but maybe not forever."