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HyperNormalisation

Summary: Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.

Release Date: October 16, 2016

Genre: Documentary

Director: Adam Curtis

Writer: Adam Curtis

Runtime: 2 h 46 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

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