The series consists of three one-hour programmes which explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, „how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today’s idea of freedom.”
In an attempt to liberate us, Western governments have simply narrowed our choices and created a system where class and money means everything. In a series of three films, Adam Curtis finds out how we got where we are today, and how our system of governance has led to chaos abroad.

„In 1048 the great Persian poet Omar Khayyam was born in Nayshapur, Iran. A brilliant polymath, Khayyam was a mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physician and poet. Most renowned during his lifetime as a mathematician, Khayyam wrote the influential Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra (1070), which, according to this Wikipedia entry, ‘laid down the principles of algebra, part of the body of Persian Mathematics that was eventually transmitted to Europe. In particular, he derived general methods for solving cubic equations and even some higher orders.’”

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Gather a bunch of teenagers together in a room, and usually what you sense is an abundance of hormones. But in “Louder Than a Bomb,” a documentary about a high school poetry slam of that name in Chicago, it is earnestness that is thick in the air as these young writers convene and try to shape their emotions and observations into competition-worthy poetry.

The film, by Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel, follows four of the dozens of teams as they prepare for the 2008 event. One is the Steinmenauts, the previous year’s winner, and the other three are each built around one startlingly mature, confident poet.

New York Times

Louder Than a Bomb documentary demo from Siskel/Jacobs Productions on Vimeo.