The Living Dead

Out of the carnage in Europe 50 years ago, the Allies selected certain memories.

They used them to build the official version of the good war.

This film is about how that happened. It tells why certain memories have to be buried and forgotten because they contradicted the optimism of the big historical picture.

The Living Dead (subtitled Three Films About the Power of the Past) was the second major documentary made by the film-maker Adam Curtis.

1. On the Desperate Edge of Now. This episode examined how the various national memories of the Second World War were effectively rewritten and manipulated in the ...

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