Catalog 2013

There is an invisible war going on in the West Bank. Theocratic Israeli settlers are waging a daily war on their Palestinian neighbors. They harass them, attack their houses, destroy their olive trees, move their livestock. They do all they can to turn their life into a nightmare. How come all these ever more numerous videos had no echo in traditional media? This investigation reveals what’s...

If you want to know how a leading a war can be compatible with a Nobel Peace Prize, ask President Obama. According to the US government, unmanned drones are the perfect weapon to pursue the “War on Terror”. Of surgical precision and preventing risk to American life, drones are the way to make it “clean”. Under the Obama administration, the use of drone strikes has exploded. Faced with...

Mossad’s Kidon unit has none but one objective: to kill the enemies of Israel. Active all over the world, this unit of 50 elite agents obeys only one man: the Israeli Prime Minister. What are their assassination techniques? How do they choose their targets? How do they operate in Iran, Jordan and Europe? Did they poison Yasser Arafat? And what are the diplomatic consequences of their...

Who’s paying the real price for the cheap food in our supermarkets? What is the social cost of discount food? We investigate the conditions under which some of our common staples - bananas, vegetables and fish - are produced. In Italy - at the heart of democratic and "human right compliant" European Union - illegal workers from sub-Saharan Africa live in appalling conditions, working long...

Worldwide, most popular football is an annual 400 billion euro industry. The “mercato” trades multi-million euro footballers’ transfers between famous clubs. But within these overhyped sports news, much more discreet people play a decisive and very lucrative role: footballers’ agents. This investigation reveals the hidden mechanisms of this huge market. The role of these influent...

Companies like Apple, Google and Starbucks have been heavily criticized for seemingly mastering the art of tax dodging. They make billions in profits and pay virtually nothing back to the state. How do they do it? Why did it take so long for politicians to start addressing the issue? After months of investigation, we uncovered confidential documents revealing how Amazon avoids paying tax....

This documentary brings the French wine industry into focus. This emblematic product brought France 10 billion euros of export revenue in 2012 alone. But wine producers are now facing a strong competition from "new world" wines as well as their European neighbours. As their competitors gain an ever larger market share, some producers are tempted to break the rules. In the Languedoc region in the...

A look back at the emergence of Internet freedom defence movements that have sprung up in reaction to growing regulation of the Web by governments and multinationals. Internet was created by hippies while being funded by the military! This improbable culture shock gave birth to an area of freedom that was impossible to censor or control. Yet for years, that is precisely what a certain number of...

  In the 21st century, tobacco will continue to kill 8 million people each year. More than the dead of all the wars, nuclear attacks and the deadliest diseases malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS, put together. To reach such a commercial success, tobacco companies have used every trick in the book to sell their deadly product; blatant or illegal, furtive or camouflaged advertising,...

Alyaa Elmahdy, a 20-year-old Egyptian woman, faces death threats in her country. She had no other choice but to flee. She found refuge in Sweden. Her crime? Posing naked on her blog to denounce the hypocrisy surrounding women’s bodies in the Arab world. The photography is neither pornography nor eroticism. But a militant act. The act of a woman who is in charge of her sexuality in a sexist...

In China, a handful of artists are standing up to the regime, openly criticizing the government and finding ways around censorship to raise public awareness. In a country where the press is state-controlled, they have become the voice of free speech. And a headache for the Chinese government. But their subversive actions can be dangerous. In the past two years, nearly 200 dissident artists...