Tonight at a glance
- Length
- 1 season · 3 episodes
- Status
- Miniseries
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
The story
We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
- man vs machine
- civil war
- gorilla
- technology
- dna
- revolution
- commune
- industrialist
- mathematical theorem
- congo
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- David Attenborough
- Richard Brautigan
- Bill Clinton
- Richard Dawkins
- Tord Björk
- Daniel Botkin
- Barbara Branden
- Nathaniel Branden
- Rachel Carpenter
- Jay Forrester
- Randall Gibson
- Directed
- Adam Curtis
- Created
- Adam Curtis
- Written
- Adam Curtis
Production
- Rating
- 8.3 / 10 · 52 ratings
- Network & studio
- BBC Two, BBC
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.













