cinelet Get Cinelet
Short of the Week

Personal Truth

Charlie Lyne · UK · Documentary · 18 min · 7.2K views

Directed by Charlie Shackleton · Starring Alex Jones, Edgar Maddison Welch · 2018

In 2016 an armed man stormed a Washington pizzeria looking for a child sex ring that never existed. This essay film retraces his story to ask how we decide what to believe.

A sharp, thoughtful essay on the Pizzagate gunman and the stories we choose to believe.

In December 2016, an armed man stormed a Washington D.C. pizza parlour in search of a non-existent child sex ring he'd read about online. What can his story teach us about knowledge, belief and the stories we choose to p

Plays in YouTube's player · Watch on YouTube

More like this