The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)

8.0 60 min 1 season TV Show
Documentary

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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Cast

Adam Curtis Adam Curtis Narrator
Yevgeny Kiselyov Yevgeny Kiselyov Self
Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage)
Tony Blair Tony Blair Self (archive footage)
Boris Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Self (archive footage)

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