Truth & Lies - Season 1

Truth & Lies - Season 1

Season 1

Since the dawn of civilization, people in power have played with the truth, danced with deception, and altered reality to suit their interests. Truth & Lies is a provocative series that explores the most dramatic present-day and historical examples of facts being bent, twisted and reshaped as a means of achieving influence and control.
Network
Episodes6
DatesJan 17, 2023 - Feb 21, 2023

Episodes

Conspiracy
Season 1Episode 160 min

Conspiracy

Whether it's the Kennedy assassination, Pizzagate or the Corona virus - conspiracy theories are booming, thanks in part to the Internet. But they are not a modern phenomenon. People have been seduced by conspiracy theories for centuries. They offer simple answers to complex questions: a world without chaos, without coincidences, in which everything is planned, and everything can be controlled.

John A. Kantara's film shows the power of conspiracy theories from the Middle Ages to the present. For a long time, conspiracy theories served to maintain the power of the mighty and to suppress minorities. This changes with the advent of mass media. Conspiracy theories are now used to criticize and attack existing power structures. Then as now, the belief in conspiracy theories often leads to violence.

Jan 17, 2023
Weapons Of War
Season 1Episode 260 min

Weapons Of War

In war, truth dies first. For the powerful, the battlefield serves as a stage for heroic narratives. The enemy mutates from a human being into a monster. Lies serve to justify bloodshed, to disguise one's own motives, and sometimes even to turn defeat into victory.

John A. Kantara proves that lies have always been part of warfare. In doing so, war propaganda makes use of the technical possibilities of the time. To spread one's truth, all means are used: from paintings to photographs to television images and social media posts. Today, anyone can become a war correspondent. But the abundance of data leads to an illusion of transparency; truth is hardly verifiable.

Jan 24, 2023
Scandals
Season 1Episode 360 min

Scandals

Scandals shock and fascinate us. They reveal the lies and missteps of the rich and powerful. Scandals ignite debates and are engines of social change. But scandals are not a modern phenomenon. They have accompanied human history since ancient times. Liam O'Rinn looks at the history of scandals and shows how they have changed over time.

While scandals were still spread by word of mouth in ancient times, the media gradually acquire an increasingly important role in the scandalization process. They uncover missteps and make them accessible to a large audience. But they too can become the focus of the scandal, as the London Times and Stern press scandals show. In the digital age, whistleblowers are the newest players in the scandalization process.

Jan 31, 2023
The Power Of Money
Season 1Episode 460 min

The Power Of Money

In the battle between truth and lies, money plays a decisive role. After all, wealth and power go hand in hand. From antiquity to the present day, the powerful have used their wealth to influence all areas of social interaction in their favor. Whether art and culture, science or politics, nothing seems to be safe from the power of money and the influence of those who possess it.

They do not always take the truth too seriously. Truths are bent into shape, lies are spread. Everything seems possible if it increases the influence of the few. But money also makes it possible to challenge existing power relations and inequalities. Writer Riel Lazaraus takes a look at how the power of money has influenced the course of history.

Feb 7, 2023
The Politics Of Religion
Season 1Episode 560 min

The Politics Of Religion

For thousands of years, religions have offered people orientation, hope and support. But time and again, faith is also misused as a political tool. Wars and conflicts are fought under the guise of religion.

Rudolph Herzog analyzes how faith has been functionalized for worldly interests throughout history. In the Exodus narrative, the Israelites use the narrative of an all-powerful God to free themselves from slavery. Religious fanaticism leads to the persecution of witches in modern Europe. During European colonization of the American continent, faith served as a pretext for the oppression and murder of indigenous peoples. And in modern times, scientific findings shake the foundations of religion.

Feb 14, 2023
Influencers
Season 1Episode 660 min

Influencers

Some people have had a decisive influence on the course of history. They are opinion makers who skillfully used the technological achievements of their time to spread their views. No area of society is safe from their influence.

To increase their influence, opinion makers do not shy away from dubious methods. They use lies and create truths if it is in their interest. Supposedly higher goals serve as a pretext to satisfy their own hunger for power. Some influencers have become famous. Little is known about others. Tom Ockers looks at the phenomenon, starting with Apostle Paul and ending with algorithms, the opinion makers of the new millennium.

Feb 21, 2023

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