In politics and business the triumph of the self is often seen as the
ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the
people. Adam Curtis' Century of the Self tells the story of mass-consumer society in
Britain and the US to question whether we really are in charge.
This 3-part documentary charts the origins and course of the current global economy as the outgrowth of a century of trial-and-error experimentation with different political and economic ideologies.
A John Pilger film exploring the impact of globalisation in Indonesia, a country that the World Bank described as a 'model pupil' until its 'globalised' economy collapsed in 1998.