Also Century of Self by Adam Curtis and many other documentaries. The reality of the situation spans so many disciplines (psychology/neurology, evolutionary theory, history, government, geopolitics, and so forth and so on) that getting a solid handle on what is actually true is impossible, but with the right effort and style of thinking it's not difficult to form a reasonable conclusion that the actual state of reality is quite different than the way it is advertised and perceived by the masses, which seems to me like a good epistemic position to work from.