The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been broadcast in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true neither are these nightmares. In a new series the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion.   ... >>