• 2017
History's Greatest Lies
  • 2017

History's Greatest Lies

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Fabrice d'Almeida Jean Garrigues Noël Mamère Laurent Bihl

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6.6

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 16, 2017

Countries of origin : France

Official sites : Official URL

Language : French

Production companies : CPB Films (Compagnie des Phares et Balises) RMC Decouverte

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 16, 2017

Countries of origin : France

Official sites : Official URL

Language : French

Production companies : CPB Films (Compagnie des Phares et Balises) RMC Decouverte

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Mar 16, 2017
1915: The Sinking of the Lusitania
On May 7th 1915, the British trans-Atlantic liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine. The Germans claimed that the ship was transporting weapons. The Americans denied it and used the disaster to justify their declaration of war.
Episode 2 • Jun 05, 2017
1944: Operation Fortitude
6th June 1944. The beaches of Normandy are the scene of the most spectacular military operation of all time: the Normandy Landings. They owe their success, though, to a gigantic lie: a phantom army and a network of double agents.
Episode 3 • Apr 10, 2017
1983: The Sniffer Planes
In 1979, in the midst of the second oil crisis, two eccentric inventors proposed to the French industrial oil giant, Elf, a concept for an aircraft able to detect oil deposits underground.
Episode 4 • Jun 18, 2018
1972: Watergate
Greatest American lie of the 20th century. Richard Nixon spared no effort to ensure his re-election: spying on his opponents, stealing documents, using slush funds. The truth came to light and forced the American president to resign.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
2003: The War in Iraq
G. W. Bush assured the UN Security Council that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction and posed a threat to the US, particularly through its links with Al Qaeda. However, it was all untrue.
Episode 6 • Jun 18, 2018
1985: The Rainbow Warrior
Mar '85: a flagship of the Greenpeace fleet - the Rainbow Warrior, while organizing a protest to stop French nuclear testing in Polynesia, was docked in New Zealand. Jul '85: French agents sank the flagship. France denied responsibility.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
2008: The Madoff Affair
12th December 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, B. L. Madoff was arrested. Being behind the US history's largest financial fraud of $65 billion how did he convince institutions and individuals to entrust their money to him?
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
1991: The First Gulf War
Oct 1990: a 15 y. old girl gives a testimony of the atrocities committed in a Kuwait by Hussein's troops. Jan 1991: the First Gulf War begins. This war was based on a lie, invented by communication agencies, financed by the US and Kuwait.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
2013: Lance Armstrong the Legend
Jan 2013: the 7x Tour de France winner confesses to Oprah Winfrey he has been doped, using growth hormone and blood transfusions. How did this American "hero" built the greatest lie in the history of cycling without being stopped sooner?
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
1998: The Monica Lewinsky Affair
Jan 1998: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky", Bill Clinton lied live from the White House. The greatest sex scandal shook the US presidency while uncovering the lies mechanics at the state's highest levels.
Episode 11 • Oct 12, 2020
1953: Tobacco the Industry of Lies
Apr 1994: "Nicotine isn't addictive", the tobacco industry leaders pronounced in front of the US Congress. 4 years later, they had to pay a $200 billion fine and open their archives that uncovered a large-scale strategy of disinformation.
Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1969
1983: The Elysee Wire Tapping Scandal
March 1993: two journalists questioned the French President, François Mitterrand, on the Elysée Palace wiretapping scandal which had just come to light. The President denied everything. Who set up this STASI-style intelligence mechanism?
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
1991: The Contaminated Hemophilia Blood Case
In April 1991, a doctor and a journalist published an article about medical staff knowingly distributing blood products contaminated with HIV to thousands of hemophiliacs in 1984 - 85, causing a multinational HIV and hepatitis C outbreak.
Episode 14 • Dec 31, 1969
1997: The Asbestos Scandal
It's one of the most efficient industrial lobbying case in France and the greatest industrial killer of the 20th cent. It's story isn't over yet: new cases of 'asbestos cancer' are still reported, possibly causing 500.000 deaths by 2025.
Episode 15 • Dec 31, 1969
1996: The Mad Cow Crisis
In March 1996, after 10 years of disinformation and lies by omission, and when ten British citizens got the deadly Creutzfeldt-Jacob (mad cow) disease, it finally became public this disease could be transmitted to humans.
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