Manufacturing propaganda (2010 documentary about conspiracy theories)

"We thought we were going to attend a U.N. meeting and we witnessed a racist hate fest instead". Anti-Semitic slogans, flyers praising Hitler to come back from the dead, fundamentalist propaganda etc. These are images that have haunted many NGOs since the 2001 Durban Conference in South Africa. It all happened a week before 9/11. As the United States waged war against terrorism and deserted UN regulations, Asian and African states took hold of the majority in the new Human Rights Council created in 2006. For the first time, a documentary explains the inner workings of Geneva’s UN premises. The documentary seeks to get to the bottom of what became of the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights. What we discover there seems very far from the miraculous consensus orchestrated by Eleanor Roosevelt 60 years ago. Nowadays, the Council hosts a direct confrontation between two visions of the world. Dictatorships and authoritarian states lecturing the few democracies present in the Assembly. As Robert Badinter - the father of death penalty’s abolition in France - puts it: "the question of human

HIV will probably remain in the history of medicine as one of his greatest successes. Cause of a real slaughter in the 80s and the first half of the 90s, more and more doctors do not hesitate to talk about HIV as a chronic disease. If there is no cure for HIV, tritherapies, available since 1996 and continually improved, allow today to live with it: HIV is no longer synonymous with AIDS, more than 80% of patients are in treatment success; it's more than diabetes. Today HIV-positive parents can give birth to an HIV-negative child. But all is not rosy because HIV remains a social and cultural taboo and talk about their HIV status remains very difficult for the virus carriers. Beyond treatments, living with HIV is to live differently love, sex, and ones relationship to others. The promise of a vaccine being constantly postponed: what solutions to finally can talk about the end of AIDS? What preventive implement to make it effective? This film will report on the strong medical advances today and will investigate on the successes but

After being hunted close to extinction the Great White Shark is now a protected species in South Africa. However, thousands of other sharks are still being killed. Many sharks are hunted for their fins alone, to satisfy an enormous demand for shark fin soup in the Far East. This film exposes the cruelty of live finning, see for yourself... Content licensed by DRG to Little Dot Studios.

American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon became the basis for one of the biggest conspiracy theories born after September 11: for the authors, no plane ever crashed into the Pentagon, it was a missile that struck, with no trace of any plane crash. Considered to be the largest "disinformation machine" to grow out of the tragedy.As part of the 10th memorial of September 11th, the objective of this film is not to revisit the logic of the conspiracy but rather cut the conspiracy right in its tracks by going back to basics of the actual events that unfolded that day... investigating the facts, tracing the timeline of the tragic morning of Tuesday, September 11th. There will also be an effort to understand the purely American point of view on this event and, why, the information gathered from the investigation left so many questions unanswered. It will be largely based on witnesses of several family members of victims. The youngest victim was 3 years old; the oldest was 71 years...The film will simply concentrate on that fateful tragic

Michael 'Wolf' Pasakarnis often claimed that he walked in two worlds at once. An artist with a kind heart and adventurous spirit, he was struck and killed by lightning at 29 years old. He left stunning evidence that he knew where, when, and how it would happen. He came back with an important message for all of us. Now Wolf’s story is a brave and captivating documentary, Wolf’s Message, inspired by the book of the same name by acclaimed author and spiritual teacher, Suzanne Giesemann, which explores the profound true story of a young man's afterlife communication. Directed by filmmaker Jim Spruell, Wolf's Message follows the true story of Wolf's parents, Mike and Beth Pasakarnis. After his passing, they discovered a poem and drawings he left behind, along with other clues about how he would depart from this world. Through Giesemann, they began receiving undeniable and astonishing messages from beyond, offering irrefutable proof of his continued presence. Through intimate interviews, expert insights, and compelling real-life accounts, Wolf’s Message delves into the nature of consciousness, the continuity of love, and the

How much oil is left - and what happens when the world’s most important energy source becomes harder, riskier and more expensive to extract? This compelling energy documentary investigates the global dependence on crude oil, the theory of peak oil and the environmental dangers of deep-sea drilling. Beginning with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, it examines how technological failures, financial pressure and difficult drilling conditions contributed to one of the worst oil spills in history. Travel from oil fields in Austria and Saudi Arabia to research centres in Europe, Canadian oil sands and offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists, geologists, engineers and industry experts reveal how oil is formed, how new reserves are discovered and why many of the world’s largest oil fields may be declining. The documentary also explores enhanced oil recovery, horizontal drilling, water injection, polymer technology, Arctic exploration and the enormous financial and environmental costs of extracting unconventional oil. It investigates the use of chemical dispersants during the Deepwater Horizon cleanup and questions their impact on marine ecosystems and human