History's Greatest Lies (1970)
Often forgotten, and rarely punished, the lies of those in power always achieve their goals: THEY CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY Who are the liars? Heads of state, politicians or military leaders, supported by their hierarchies. They have no qualms about lying to the radio, to television, to millions of people, end even, on oath, to the highest authorities and institutions. They use secret services, military strategy or communications agencies to make their lies more credible. The only motto is: «the bigger the lie, the more it will be believed!» In affairs of state, all and every means can be used to certify or conceal an operation. Lies are not just a matter of words, or of silence. They entail practical acts as well as technical support. Whole teams are sometimes necessary to construct believable illusions. In the service of a nation, lying just means reinventing the world.
Country: FR
Language: En
Runtime: 52
Season 5:
How could France, one of the wealthiest country in the Western world let medical staff passed out HIV contaminated blood bags to thousand of patients. That is the question raised by hemophiliac, transfused people and their close relatives. They were indeed infected with HIV in the 1980’s through these contaminated blood bags. That is also the question raised by those who survived...
This is the greatest industrial killer of the XXth century. The story is not over yet. Around 300 new cases of «Absestos cancer» are reported each year in France. It would represent 100000 deaths until 2025. At the European scale this number grows up to 500000. This is also one of the most efficient industrial lobbying case in France’s History. This is an unthinkable manipulation led by financial interests. These ones led to the death of thousands of workers. Thousands of workers that no one has wanted or known how to protect.
Disinformation and lies through omission: During 10 years, british politicians and lobbyists have worked to reduce the importance of the greatest food-industrial crisis since World War II. On March 20th of 1996, it eventually became public that the prion could communicate the «mad cow disease» to humans. At this time ten British citizens got a deadly disease, the Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. They were suspected to got it by eating infected meat.
