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The Living Dead: Three Films About the Power of the Past is a series of films that investigate the way that history and memory (both national and individual) have been manipulated and distorted by politicians and others for various means of control...

Country: United Kingdom

Type: unscripted

Status: Ended

Language: English

Release Date: May 30, 1995

Also Known As: The Living Dead, Living Dead

Genres

Plot Keywords

miniseries
social documentary
history documentary
memory
rewriting memory
rewriting history
the past
erasing history
erasing memory
memories
politics documentary
historical memory
changing one's mind
aftermath of world war ii
remembering
carinhall germany
reference to hermann goering
reference to rewriting history
memories of the past
reference to the nuremberg trials
burying the past
nuremberg trials
postwar
erasing the past
1940s
learning from the past
allies of world war ii
germany
german history
world war two history
hidden past
cold war
memory loss
control
memory storage
psychiatry
nationalism
forgetting
winston churchill quotation
reference to the korean war
reference to 'the manchurian candidate' 1962
reference to the manchurian candidate
brainwashing
mind reprogramming
reference to the cia
brainwashing machine
false memory
reference to community memory
implanted memory
montreal quebec canada
human ecology
wiping memory
electroconvulsive therapy
cognitive science
experimental treatment
manipulation
1960s
plot to assassinate fidel castro
mind control
changing memories
reference to the kgb
computer memory
cruise missile
reference to artificial intelligence
thinking machine
british conservative party
reference to colditz castle
reference to airey middleton sheffield neave
1970s
1974
mp member of parliament
british parliament
reference to margaret thatcher
political leader
british politics
political manipulation
political idealism
nation
british history
english history
patriotism
reference to northern ireland
reference to the troubles
1980s
irish troubles
prisoner on hunger strike
political hunger strike
reference to bobby sands
reference to sinn fein
reference to imperialism
reference to the falklands war
living in the past
nostalgia
margaret thatcher
national pride
british imperialism
world power
english politics
tv mini series

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

1995 | 3 Episodes

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