The Living Dead (1) On the Desperate Edge of Now Published on 12 mrt. 2020 The Living Dead: Three Films About the Power of the Past is the second major BBC television documentary series by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It was originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1995. In the series, Curtis examines the different ways that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used and manipulated by politicians and others. Part 1. ‘On the Desperate Edge of Now’ This episode, broadcast on 30 May 1995, examines how the various national ideals and memories of the Second World War were effectively buried, rewritten and manipulated in the Cold War era, only to violently resurface later with events such as the protests of 1968, the emergence of the Red Army Faction, and the turmoil of the Yugoslav Wars. For Germany, this process began at the Nuremberg Trials, where the use of the film The Nazi Plan was intended to reveal the criminality of the Nazi state, and attempts were made to prevent defendants — principally Hermann Göring — from providing any rational or contextualized argument for their actions during the war. Subsequently, however, bringing lower-ranking Nazis to justice was … Meer lezen over Adam Curtis – The Living Dead (1) On the Desperate Edge of Now + (2) You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough + (3) The Attic (1995)