Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, first and foremost. Much of Adam Curtis’ work is fantastic. Hypernormalization and The Trap were as fascinating as they were frightening.

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, first and foremost. Much of Adam Curtis’ work is fantastic. Hypernormalization and The Trap were as fascinating as they were frightening. If I had the authority, I would mandate every child see A Century of the Self in school, and then again in college. James Burke’s Connections was also excellent. Kind of like a link between Carl Sagan and Adam Curtis. I personally loved the History Channel’s Engineering an Empire, not least because of the hilariously hyper-American host, Peter Weller (best known as RoboCop).