The Power of Nightmares - first screened in Autumn 2004 - explored how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is largely an illusion. It made extensive use of music as outlined by the series creator, Adam Curtis.
By Adam Curtis
Writer, Producer and Narrator, The Power of Nightmares
There is too much music and noise to list everything. But the main pieces used are these:
John Carpenter - The theme from The Prince of Darkness - the 1987 movie. Plus the repetitive piano bit from Halloween in the haunted house.
Brian Eno - From Another Green World - Big Ship - and In Dark Trees
Charles Ives - Symphony number two - 5th movement. Putnam's Camp from Three Places in New England. Plus a bit from Central Park in the Dark
Ennio Morricone - Theme from the 1970 film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
And a Morricone piece from the 1980 Pontecorvo film Ogro
Shostakovich - Lyric waltz from the Ballet Suite No 1 and a bit from The Young Lady and the Hooligan
John Barry - The Ipcress File
Soundtrack to The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Paul Sawtell and Jerry Goldsmith
Colours by Donovan
Baby It's Cold Outside - the 1949 version by Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting
The best noises come from Skinned - which is a whole lot of samples from the archives of the band Skinny Puppy
Adam Curtis wrote, produced and narrated the series, Power of Nightmares first broadcast on BBC Two in Autumn 2004 and repeated in January 2005.
His other work for the BBC includes The Century of the Self, The Mayfair Set, Pandora's Box, The Living Dead and An Ocean Apart.