

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

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Featuring

Adam Curtis
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Yevgeny Kiselyov
Self

Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair
Self (archive footage)

Boris Yeltsin
Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher
Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)

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