First Aired: March 11st, 2007
Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
Network: BBC Two
Summary: Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.
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# of Episodes: 3
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# of Episodes I haven't watched: 3
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Last Aired Episode
Season 1 - Episode 3: We Will Force You To Be Free
Air Date: March 25th, 2007
Summary: The final program focused on the concepts of positive and negative liberty introduced in the 1950s by Isaiah Berlin. Curtis briefly explained how negative liberty could be defined as freedom from coercion and positive liberty as the opportunity to strive to fulfill one's potential. Tony Blair had read Berlin's essays on the topic and wrote to him in the late 1990s, arguing that positive and negative liberty could be mutually compatible. He never received a reply, as Berlin was on his death bed.
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Adam Curtis
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Tony Blair
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Margaret Thatcher
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Bill Clinton
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Ronald Reagan
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