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Taiwan is one of the most advanced democracies in the world. It’s also one of the most threatened. Despite being one of the world’s leading economies, having its own president, government, flag and anthem, no country recognises it. The problem is that China has always considered Taiwan to be one of its own provinces. Even today, President Xi Jinping does not rule out using...

From his window he saw the horror. From his window, he filmed the terror. Daniel Psenny, journalist at Le Monde newspaper since 25 years, witnessed the bloodiest terrorist attack in our contemporary history, that of November 13, 2015 at the Bataclan. With his cell phone, Daniel, who lives a few meters from the famous Parisian concert hall, recorded a document, the only film that exists on...

Phosphate fertilizers are essential to modern agriculture, especially for growing potatoes, one of the the favorites vegetables of Europeans. In Morocco, the country with the largest phosphate reserves, residents complain about the impacts of fertilizer production on their environment and their health. But they lack scientific data. A team of journalists, in collaboration with European...

Every year, 500,000 Europeans are meet a premature fate due to air pollution. One of the main causes of this pollution is coal - a fuel that is still used in many European countries. And this air pollution has no borders - it spreads its contamination throughout the continent, where citizens fight every day for their basic right to breathable air. Many doctors have raised the alarm, but...

In Niger, near a huge uranium mine, some residents live in areas that exceed the radioactivity of the Chernobyl Prohibited Zone. In the meantime, in France, citizens denounce the pollution of the largest uranium conversion plant in Europe. Despite the bans, a team of journalists, with the help of scientists, investigate in the two countries and take dozens of samples to learn more about the...

Martin Boudot, journaliste d’investigation, part sur les traces des pollutions de notre monde : contamination des fleuves, de l’air et des sols, radioactivité, rejets toxiques etc. Pendant un an, il enquête avec le soutien d’une équipe de scientifiques indépendants, en Europe mais aussi localement, pour réaliser des tests et documenter les pollutions. Les résultats de ses études...

The decision not 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. 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...

Creating a dress for ten euros in Europe, in less than a fortnight. It’s not only possible, but it’s becoming the norm. Since the fashion industry went down the path of fast-fashion, it’s always both faster and cheaper – no matter the consequences.  Let’s start with those suffering the most: the workers. They work between 12 and 15 hours a day for salaries less than half the...

Big pharma is big business. Richer and more powerful than ever, Big Pharma has influence at the heart of the economy and politics. This film investigates the lobbying practices of the lucrative pharmaceutical industry which can alone decide on government health policies, possibly to the detriment of our health. This global and complex survey collects testimonies from patient suffering from the...

This new Netflix docuseries profiles some of the world’s most wanted.       Executive Producers: Thomas Zribi & Jérôme Fritel Lead Editor: Manuel Guillon Directors: Caroline du Saint & Cyprien D'Haese Martin Boudot Paul Moreira Hugo Van Offel Thomas Zribi Co-executive producers: Bernard Zekri Ouiddir & Luc Hermann Directors of Photography: Stéphane...

Our plate is our most powerful weapon in fighting global warming and in protecting our planet.   Today, our diets play a major role in the threats weighing on our planet. But alas, there is hope. Investigative journalist Benoît Bringer sets off on a global search for women and men who are inventing a new dietary model — one which respects both humankind and nature.   This...

Luc Hermann and Edouard Perrin from Premières Lignes, along with BBC, PBS Frontline, RTS and CBC, were on the panel of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) webinar launching a collaborative platform on COVID-19 investigations.   How to Pitch Your Long-form Video COVID-19 Story to Major Broadcasters By Rowan Philp GIJN | April 21, 2020 Breaking news stories about the...

More details soon. Press  articles about this production (in French) Netflix, Amazon Prime… les plates-formes s’arrachent les documentaires français Cocorico… les plates-formes de streaming multiplient les projets avec des auteurs et producteurs français moyennant certaines conditions. Par Carine Didier LE PARISIEN « Les espaces dédiés à l'investigation sur les chaînes sont...

Filmed, fly on the wall style, fighting, talking, laughing, being attacked by suicide bombs and sniper fire. We were with them until Raqqa was freed. And then followed them back home. Changed forever. They are from all nationalities. They dwell in the mythology of the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War. They chose to give up their comfortable lives and go fight ISIS in Syria....

In 2001, the lucrative chocolate industry, due to pressure from NGOs, committed itself to putting an end to child labour 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...

Sixty years of producing standardized fruit and vegetables and creating industrial hybrids have had a dramatic impact on their nutritional content. In the past 50 years, vegetables have lost 27% of their vitamin C and nearly half of their iron. Take the tomato. Through multiple hybridizations, scientists are constantly producing redder, smoother, firmer fruit. But in the process, it has lost a...

Green Warriors, a series of scientific investigative documentaries. Citarum river, Indonesia.  It’s the world’s most polluted river. A reporter teams up with international scientists to investigate the causes and consequences of this pollution. One of the main polluters is actually hidden in our closets : the fashion industry. 500 textile factories throw away their wastewater...

Green Warriors, a series of scientific investigative documentaries. Paraguay tells the story of our world. To feed livestock around the planet, the soybean industry destroys the country's forests, to plant its fields whom pesticides sprayings poison the inhabitants. On site, journalists and scientists work together to find evidences of the contamination. They are developing a unique...