Watch The Power of Nightmares
- 2004
- 2 hr 37 min
The Power of Nightmares also called The Rise of the Politics of Fear is a United Kingdom based film that was released in 2004. The film features Adam Curtis as the director as well as the narrator. The running time of the film is 180 minutes and it is composed of three episodes. Part one, titled Baby It's Cold Outside, seeks to explain the origin if Islamism and neo-convertism as explained through Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian civil servant. The second part, The Phantom Victory, shows Islamic factions undergoing a fall under the rule of Zawahiri. The last episode, The Shadows in the Cave, addresses the rise and development of the Al Qaeda.
