Time Magazine: "Like a Hollywood heist movie but it really happened"People: "Cocaine Air tells a truth that's wilder than fiction" Four Frenchmen are arrested in Punta Cana with 700 kg of cocaine — none fit the trafficker profile.  The documentary series investigates who orchestrated the operation, who was behind the bust?Episode 1: When police raid a plane in Punta Cana with four...

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...

They’re bankers, traders, or investment funds executives. Frauds, lies, cons: 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, triggered the rise in extremism. Then, who are they? This is a story about money, power and impunity. Ten years after the...

With their beautiful shopfronts and finely crafted goods, brands like Gucci, Max Mara, Louis Vuitton and Prada are seen as being the height of luxury, conjuring images of master craftsmen finely crafting each item. But - as this investigation reveals - behind the glamorous exterior, all that glitters is not gold. In the world of luxury goods, leather means record-breaking profits. For brands...

Green Warriors, a series of scientific investigative documentaries. Johannesburg is considered the most uranium-contaminated city in the world. Waste dumps from around 600 abandoned mines sit next to residential communities, blowing polluted dust into homes and contaminating the soil and water supplies. To get a sense of the sheer extent of the problem, Martin Boudot and his team of...

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. We also learn how platforms like snapchat or facebook are engineered to make them hyper-addictive. Three year old Ryan doesn’t speak, avoids eye contact and...

An 8 month long international investigation exposed the Paradise Papers. With 13.5 million documents, it’s the biggest leak in history. The majority come from one of the biggest names in the offshore world: the Bermuda-based Appleby law firm. Along with 400 journalists from around the world, we dissected the packages prepared for Appleby’s clients, who are either wealthy individuals...

This exclusive film reveals exactly why a coalition of 26 international powers, overseen by the United States, has yet to overthrow 30,000 Isis jihadists. By investigating the supply lines of firearms and weapons to ISIS, it sheds new light on the connections between Isis and Turkey. Journalist Laurent Richard also investigates the goings on behind the scenes of certain CIA-led clandestine...

Truth has a cost. Pressure, blackmail, loneliness, this investigation that looks like a psychological thriller reveals what it costs to expose an international scandal. This is the story of Raphael Halet along with another man, Antoine Deltour, an ordinary French citizen who leaked ultra confidential documents to investigative reporter Edouard Perrin. The International Consortium of Investigative...

In France, the agrifood industry reaps a dizzying profit of 170 billion euros per year. This sector is exceedingly powerful; strong in both its networks and influence. But how come ham is pink? Why do we believe that it is good for our children? Why are product labels beyond understanding? From Brittany to Denmark, through California and Wisconsin, film director Sandrine Rigaud conducts a...

After Swissleak sand Luxleaks scandals, Premieres Lignes is an ICIJ partner in Panama Papers investigation. This is the biggest leak in history: 11.5 million files exposing the most secret world of offshore finance. Shell companies hiding the assets of political leaders, businessmen, celebrities, sports stars and even criminals. All resort to tax avoidance schemes depriving national treasuries...

"A Look at Ukraine’s Dark Side" (read here) An interesting review of Paul Moreira’s film « Ukraine The Masks Of The Revolution », published in Consortium News, the investigative news magazine directed by the award winning investigative journalist Robert Parry who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek which led to to the Kerry Committee...

Amos Pictures in association with Premières Lignes for HBO, BBC and France 2 Watch the TRAILER In January 2015, the attacks that occurred in Paris against satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store shook France and the whole world. A year on, with unprecedented access to the French authorities and previously unseen footage, director Dan Reed reveals the untold story of...