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The Road to Terror

Iranian revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution, a familiar journey from liberation to repression.Documentary by Adam Curtis.

How can a revolution have come to this? In The Road to Terror, Iranian revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution. They speak as exiles in Paris, a city preparing to celebrate the glories of the first mass revolution of 1789. 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 like 200 years ago in France, the Iranian revolution has gone down the old road from liberation to repression, the road to terror.

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50 minutes

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Producer Adam Curtis
Producer Paul Hamann
Film Editor Graham Shipman

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