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The Road to Terror

The Road to Terror

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 24, 1989

Runtime

0h 52m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

The Road to Terror

Production Companies

BBC

Director

Adam Curtis

Description

In The Road to Terror, revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution. They speak as exiles in Paris, a city that is preparing to celebrate the glories of the first mass revolution of 1978. Behind its strange images, the struggle for power in the Iranian revolution has followed a pattern uncannily similar to many of the great revolutions of the past: just as 200 years ago in France, the Iranian revolution has gone down the old road from liberation to repression, the road to terror.