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- It chronicles the rise of Carlos Ghosn as well as the internal rivalries and tensions he sparked within Nissan-Renault and his dramatic arrest.
- Le Monde en face is a French television program presenting a documentary followed by a debate.
- Starbucks is now a part of our daily lives. Like McDonald's, its 22,000 coffeehouses present in 67 countries have made it a recognizable symbol of globalization. This investigative report explores the brand's appeal, what made its success and reveals the coffee giant's dark underside.
- They're bankers, traders, investment funds executives. They forgot all about morality to make money. The entire world had to suffer the consequences of their actions. They impoverished countries, drove millions of workers into unemployment, and contributed to the rise in extremism. So who are they? And, after the 2008 crisis, were the real culprits condemned? Could there be another?
- In the last 10 years, the landscape of the pharmaceutical industry has changed. A handful of multinationals control the manufacture of most of the drugs.
- Academics, public relations experts, and satirists of various kinds describe the history and nature of propaganda.
- The decision not to extradite Julian Assange to the United States is unlikely to be the end of his long struggle. For the past 10 years, Premiere Lignes has investigated Assange and the WikiLeaks network. In their first film in 2011, they interviewed Julian Assange and his team and profiled these new transparency activists who aim to disrupt citizens' relationship with information. In 2013, they met Julian Assange again, interviewing him in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he described a society petrified by authoritarian excesses that he felt obliged to confront. At the time, Assange had no idea that he was going to spend seven years between four walls, watched by surveillance cameras. During the past decade, Wikileaks has come under constant pressure from the U.S. government. But the site continued to publish compromising documents that illuminate and shape our world. In 2016, its interventions in the US elections played a crucial role in the election of Donald Trump. In 2017, it tried to similarly influence the French election. Throughout all these years, the Première Lignes team continued to investigate, regularly filming new interviews. They met with Julian Assange's father, who regularly goes to Belmarsh prison near London, where his son is imprisoned. They also spoke to his lawyers who denounce Assange's arbitrary detention. Today, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are at a turning point in their history. For his detractors, Assange is a spy and traitor who deserves his fate. For his supporters, the extradition request is a serious and unprecedented attack on the freedom of information, protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Who's to say The Guardian, Der Spiegel or Le Monde could not also be prosecuted for collaborating with WikiLeaks?
- Secret internal documents reveal how Catholic Church officials protect priests accused of pedophilia and sexual abuse by moving them from country to country, sometimes as far away as Africa. Even Pope Francis is implicated. When he was bishop of Buenos Aires, he tried to influence the Argentinean justice system in order to protect a convicted priest.
- For the past 12 years, journalist Paul Moreira has travelled extensively in Iraq. In this film, he goes in search of the men he filmed back in 2003 at the very beginning of the American occupation. Through their stories, and by tracing the roots of ISIS to the arrival of Abu Mousab Al-Zarqawi and America's handling of the resistance, he tells the story of how Iraq became such a fractured nation.
- Cash Investigation is an investigative journalism TV show broadcasted in France. The show focuses on major topics and industries of our society (food, drugs, transportation, work, telecommunications, health, etc.) and often involves deep cover infiltrations worldwide. Cash Investigation is considered among the French as a major, if not the major, source of vulgarized investigative journalism.
- Special Investigation is a reporting and investigation program broadcast on Canal+ from September 2002 to June 2016, which took over from Lundi Investigation and 90 Minutes, previous investigation programs broadcast on Canal+. The investigative journalist Paul Moreira, who founded these two programs in 1999 and 2003, left Canal+ 2006 to create the Premières Lignes television press agency, which from the outset has been an important supplier of investigations for Special Investigation but also for Cash Investigation, founded in 2012 by Elise Lucet. From the mid-2010s, the show came under pressure over its revelations, denounced by the editorial team. In 2016, Geoffrey Livolsi, Nicolas Vescovacci, the two authors of an investigation which was to be broadcast on May 18, 2015 in Special Investigation, and Jean-Pierre Canet, editor-in-chief of the documentary, filed a complaint for "obstruction of freedom of expression", "abuse of corporate assets" and "abuse of power", to protest against these pressures. According to their complaint, Vincent Bolloré, president since 2014 of the supervisory board of Vivendi, parent company of Canal+, called the former general director of the encrypted channel, Rodolphe Belmer, since dismissed, to "demand the deprogramming of the documentary" , highlighting his friendship and business ties with the boss of the bank that the documentary was about.
- The documentary explores the dark secrets behind the origin and development of the fast fashion and its disastrous consequences on people's health and our planet.
- In 2001, the lucrative chocolate industry, due to pressure from NGOs, committed itself to putting an end to child labor in cacao plantations before 2006. 18 years later, has that promise been kept? The Ivory Coast, the world's largest cacao producer, made a real effort to eradicate this scourge on the country. They built schools and trained farmers. Television adverts even reminded populations that child labor is illegal. So why does child exploitation still exist? Further into isolated areas of the forest, at the end of near-impassable roads, Paul Moreira discovered child slaves, forced to work in plantations, their incomes often seized by traffickers. These child slaves are separated from their parents and sometimes resold onto other traffickers.
- Acclaimed journalist Paul Moreira investigates how Russia manipulates public opinion, undermines democratic governments and attempts to alter world events. The public face of foreign policy: the state news channels, Sputnik and Russia Today. But working in the shadows is the hidden part: the hackers and trolls pushing the Russian agenda - The Russians know that public perception of their country has reached a new low. Russophobia is massive. Their message is tainted with illegitimacy. But how does the Russian information war machine work?
- This provocative doc explores the controversial usage and evolution of drone strikes during President Barack Obama's administration.
- For the past 12 years, journalist Paul Moreira has travelled extensively in Iraq. In this film, he goes in search of the men he filmed back in 2003, at the very beginning of the American occupation. Through their stories, and by tracing the roots of ISIS to the arrival of Abu Mousab Al-Zarqawi and America's handling of the resistance, he tells the story of how Iraq became such a fractured nation.
- How come ham is pink? Why do we believe that it is good for our children? Why are product labels beyond understanding? Industrial giants are able to stall and orientate policy decisions that directly affect public health. No tactics seem too extreme. The industry targets politicians and researchers alike, not hesitating to even bribe scientists in an effort to protect their interests. When money is not good enough an incentive, they adopt a more brutal approach. Scientists are manipulated and discredited. Their crime: monitoring studies that underline the health risks of a particular product for the consumer.
- A new global phenomenon: over-equipped police facing furious, defenseless crowds brandishing their cell phones to record everything. The war of images on social media further polarizes police and demonstrators.
- With no state, no bank system, a scarce army, and an under-equipped police force, the majority of Somalia is completely out of government control.
- Artificial intelligence is developing and the digital economy is expanding. To enable this millions of people are doing underpaid work that insults human intelligence.
- Six months ago, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally killed by a car bomb just meters from her home. The investigation into her killing is ongoing, but there is little doubt that she was murdered because of her work. With a brazen, unapologetic and uncompromising style, she denounced corruption, nepotism, and all kinds of criminal behaviors in her tiny EU member state. A group of 45 journalists representing 18 news organizations from 15 countries picked up Daphne's work after it was abruptly halted by her gruesome death on the doorstep of Europe. For five months they kept digging - poring over her findings, gathering documents, talking to sources - to try to get to the bottom of the many leads the formidable woman left behind. The Daphne Project was coordinated and led by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based organization established specifically to continue the work of killed, imprisoned, or otherwise incapacitated journalists. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) facilitated the sharing of documents and information across the participating organizations and assigned researchers and reporters to investigate the many allegations about wrongdoing among Malta's elite. The sun was shining on the day assassins took Daphne's life. Now her colleagues will shine many lights onto the stories that killed her. On April 17, we will start revealing what Daphne left behind. Watch this space.
- A documentary taking a look at the biggest leak in history, when million of files exposed the secret world of offshore finance.
- For decades, their factories secretly dumped toxic products into rivers, groundwater systems and soil. This pollution affected thousands, causing disabilities, cancers and death.
- Somalia has become the world's cheapest dump, where to get rid of a ton of toxic and nuclear waste costs no more than $2.50. While this generates substantial benefits for some western speculators as the Italian mafia, hundreds of Somalis are getting sick. To protect its coasts and try to survive, the fishermen have abandoned their fishnets and have become pirates. Paul Moreira travel over the secrets of this unknown reality to reveal what lies behind piracy in Somalia.
- Children as young as three are becoming addicted to mobile phones, harming their development and causing possible long-term damage. We follow some of the youngest cases and hear how our brains are affected by exposure to screens.
- Is cotton really as pure as it seems? After claims of forced labour, pollution, and even slavery, we follow the production chain to find the truth.
- Is our dependence on pesticides harming the health of our children? Every day, children are exposed to up to 130 chemical pollutants from pesticides. All around the world, scientists and doctors are raising the alarm, linking increase of child cancers, birth defects and even the explosion of autism with exposure to chemicals in pesticides. Six corporations control the pesticide market: Syngenta, Bayer, Monsanto, Dow, Basf and Dupont. They rule over a market of 50 billions dollars. For a year, director Martin Boudot followed the tracks of their molecules to show how some of the most dangerous ones get into our everyday life. In France, children breath a pesticide classified as "probable carcinogenic". Distributed all over the world, it's one of Bayer's best-sellers. Martin Boudot and his team of reporters took some samples of dozens of hair of children and went to the annual shareholders meeting of Bayer in Germany to confront the corporations with its own principles. In Hawaii, politics and citizen battle with the pesticides industry. This paradise on earth has become an open-air laboratory where corporations test their futures plants and seeds. But it's also experienced an explosion in birth defects on the island and residents voted against the massive use of pesticides in the fields close to schools and hospital. So the pesticide industry sued them to enable the use of pesticides to continue Filmed in France, Germany, Haiwaii, Belgium and USA, this documentary reveals how some chemical corporations endanger the health of our children.
- Two journalists analyze the control of French private media by billionaires Bernard Arnault and Vincent Bolloré.
- This documentary provides a peek into the workings of WikiLeaks and its enigmatic leader, Julian Assange.
- So gigantic the success, so reprehensible the backgrounds. The video of the social campaign 'KONY 2012' of the NPO 'Invisible Children, Inc.' was clicked one hundred million times within a very short time after its publication. But under the pretense of sincere humanitarian intentions against the misdeeds of the alleged war criminal Joseph Kony, this appeal was intended to manipulate public opinion in a manner that led the US government to seek military intervention. This documentary leads to Uganda, the Central African Republic and the United States, and shows what obscure intents - from economic mining interests to religious fundamentalist proselytizing - were actually hide behind the operation of the US military in Africa and the activities of the opaque nonprofit organization with their Christian-right, evangelical financial backers.
- Tony is ready to audition for drama drama. Steven, who is to help him with the counter-remarks, does not show up. Tony decides to never talk to Steven, the traitor, again.
- From the militias that sow death in the Congo to the work of citizens united in the Control Arms campaign, Paul Moreira and David André investigate the heart of the networks of the arms trade
- On November 13, 2015, it was a little after 9.40 p.m., when Daniel Psenny, journalist at Le Monde, witnessed the mass killings in Bataclan.
- Over 300 foreign volunteers chose to give up their comfortable lives and go fight ISIS in Raqqa. We filmed them there, all the way up to when Raqqa was freed. Then we followed them back home - changed forever.