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The 3 reasons people love HyperNormalisation

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  1. You like a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world.

  2. You like decades of recent history, from the 1970s on, told as one story.

  3. You like archive footage set to unexpected pop and ambient music.

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  • Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror2021

    • a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world
    • decades of recent history, from the 1970s on, told as one story

    Good for you if you like seeing how one day reshaped the following twenty years.

  • Zeitgeist: Addendum2008

    • a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world

    Good for you if you like asking who really controls money and banks.

  • Taxi to the Dark Side2008

    • a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world

    Good for you if you want to see how orders from the top reached a prison cell.

  • Fahrenheit 9/112004

    • a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world

    Good for you if you like following money and oil between Washington and Saudi Arabia.

  • The Great Hack2019

    • a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world

    Good for you if you like stories about who controls elections and how.

  • The Edge of Democracy2019

    • a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world

    Good for you if you like watching who really holds power in a country fall apart in real time.

  • The Untold History Of The United States2012

    • a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world
    • decades of recent history, from the 1970s on, told as one story

    Good for you if you like a sweeping run through the American century.

  • Zeitgeist: Moving Forward2011

    • a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world

    Good for you if you like questioning who money really serves.

  • Inside Job2010

    • a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world

    Good for you if you want to know who made money from the crash and who paid.

  • The Fog of War2003

    • decades of recent history, from the 1970s on, told as one story

    Good for you if you want the Cold War told from inside the room.

  • The Dissident2020

    • a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world

    Good for you if you want to understand how a state hunts its critics abroad.

  • The Civil War1990

    • decades of recent history, from the 1970s on, told as one story
    • archive footage set to unexpected pop and ambient music

    Good for you if you want to understand how the United States came apart and back together.

  • Marley2012

    • a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world
    • archive footage set to unexpected pop and ambient music

    Good for you if you like reggae and want to know where these songs came from.

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