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Adam Curtis

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33 minutes

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Feb 3, 2023

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"This showed the extraordinary complexity of what millions of people went through." The multi-BAFTA winning filmmaker, Adam Curtis on how he pieced together the fall of the Soviet Union, using never-before-seen archive footage.

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Feb 3, 2023

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