MK Ultra
★ 10 · 2020 · 68m · Music · Documentary · History
The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of CIA mind control experiments during the Cold War, with documentary segments by Adam Curtis.
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