Bitter Lake (film)

*Bitter Lake*
Bitter Lake
Written by	Adam Curtis
Directed by	Adam Curtis
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Lucy Kelsall
Running time	137 minutes
Original release
Release	25 January 2015
Related
	All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011); HyperNormalisation (2016);
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Bitter Lake is a 2015 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that Western politicians have manufactured a simplified story about militant Islam, turning it into a good vs. evil argument informed by, and a reaction to, Western society's increasing chaos and disorder, which they neither grasp nor understand. The film makes extended use of newsreels and archive footage, and intersperses brief narrative segments with longer segments that depict violence and war in Afghanistan.