Conspiracy Media Directory

Alex Gibney

Documents the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into the CIA's post-9/11 enhanced interrogation program.

Dan Reed

Documents the Sandy Hook families' lawsuit against Alex Jones, capturing the human cost of conspiracy theories and the trial that resulted in $1.5 billion in damages.

Michael Premo

Inside the January 6 Capitol attack, filmed by a documentarian who embedded with the Oath Keepers militia.

Various

Examines the post-2017 wave of UAP disclosure, congressional hearings, and the shift in how government and media treat the UFO topic.

Dan Clifton

Examines the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the geopolitical conspiracy behind it.

Zachary Treitz

Netflix docuseries investigating journalist Danny Casolaro's 1991 death and his research into 'The Octopus' — an alleged network connecting Iran-Contra, BCCI, the PROMIS software scandal, and more.

Various

A convicted January 6 participant takes a filmmaker on a road trip through America's conspiracy landscape.

Arthur Jones, Giorgio Angelini

How 4chan evolved from a community of lonely teenagers into the birthplace of QAnon and the Capitol riot. 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams

How the 1980 book 'Michelle Remembers' launched the Satanic Panic that ruined lives, corrupted criminal investigations, and introduced 'recovered memory' into the culture war.

Louise Malkinson

Netflix docuseries on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, presenting multiple theories including hijacking, pilot suicide, and government coverup.

Various

Examines the psychology of conspiracy belief and why people adopt alternative explanations for events.

Tiller Russell

The 1993 standoff told with never-before-seen footage, including the full unedited negotiation tapes between the FBI and David Koresh.

Stephanie Soechtig

Examines the US food industry's history of foodborne illness outbreaks and corporate cover-ups. Follow the money from farm to fork.

Netflix documentary about Steve Cartisano's Challenger Wilderness Therapy Program in the Utah desert, where teenagers endured 63+ day forced hikes. People died.

Lisa Bryant

Follow-up focusing on Ghislaine Maxwell's role in Epstein's operation and her trial.

VICE

Investigation into UVB-76, the Russian shortwave radio station that has been broadcasting a monotone buzz since 1982, occasionally interrupted by mysterious voice messages.

Rodney Ascher

Explores simulation theory through the lens of Philip K. Dick's 1977 Metz lecture, Nick Bostrom's paper, and people who genuinely believe we're living in a simulation.

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone returns to the JFK assassination, examining declassified documents that have emerged since his 1991 film. More measured than the original.

Cullen Hoback

HBO docuseries following filmmaker Cullen Hoback as he embeds with the QAnon community and attempts to unmask Q. Ends with a compelling reveal pointing to Ron Watkins.

Joe Berlinger

Netflix deep-dive into the death of Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel — the elevator footage, the internet sleuths, the amateur detectives who did more harm than good, and the hotel's blood-soaked history.

Liam Le Guillou

A deep investigation into the Dyatlov Pass incident, examining the evidence, the Soviet cover-up, and the competing theories about what killed nine hikers in the Ural Mountains in 1959.

Andrew Rossi

HBO documentary examining how disinformation and conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and Sandy Hook denialism have real-world consequences.

Jeff Orlowski

Silicon Valley insiders explain how social media platforms are designed to manipulate behavior, amplify conspiracy theories, and erode democracy.

James Fox

The most credible mainstream UFO documentary in years, featuring declassified footage, military witnesses, and former intelligence officials. Takes UAPs seriously without going off the deep end.

Michael Mazzola

Steven Greer's follow-up claiming humans can initiate contact with extraterrestrials through meditation. Controversial even within the UFO community.

Lisa Bryant

Netflix docuseries centering victims' testimonies about Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation and the powerful people who enabled it.

Julia Willoughby Nason, Jenner Furst

A Louisiana pharmacist investigates the opioid crisis after his son's murder, uncovering a network of pill mills and pharmaceutical complicity.

Mike Smith

A Hollywood stuntman investigates how the media and Hollywood manipulate the public, touching on MKUltra, CIA influence on entertainment, and the occult. Went massively viral in 2020. Controversial and widely debunked, but culturally significant.

Mikki Willis

Judy Mikovits claims COVID-19 was planned. Went massively viral, was removed from every platform, and became a cultural flashpoint. The claims are debunked, but the phenomenon — and the censorship debate it triggered — are historically significant.

Michael Kirk

FRONTLINE investigates the alliance among Alex Jones, Roger Stone, and Donald Trump — how conspiracy theories entered mainstream American politics.

Alexandra Dean

Paris Hilton reveals the abuse she suffered at Provo Canyon School, a 'behavior modification' facility in Utah. Over 76 million views. The documentary that broke the troubled teen industry into mainstream consciousness.

Daniel Simpson

Detailed examination of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident — Britain's most famous UFO case — featuring interviews with the original witnesses including Jim Penniston and John Burroughs.

Tom Meadmore

The mysterious death of Israeli spy Ashraf Marwan, who was either Egypt's greatest spy or Israel's greatest double agent.

Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim

How Cambridge Analytica harvested Facebook data from millions of users to influence elections. The documentary that made people finally read the terms and conditions. Briefly.

Jesse Moss

Netflix docuseries exposing The Fellowship (aka The Family), a secretive Christian organization that hosts the National Prayer Breakfast and cultivates relationships with world leaders.

Alexander Nanau

After a nightclub fire kills 27 in Bucharest, journalists uncover a massive healthcare fraud conspiracy in Romania's hospital system. A real conspiracy, documented in real time.

Evan Husney, Jason Eisener

Vice docuseries about the dark underbelly of professional wrestling — deaths, coverups, exploitation, and the corporate machinery behind it.

Alexander Nanau

After a nightclub fire kills 64 people in Bucharest, journalists uncover a massive healthcare fraud: hospitals were using diluted disinfectants, and the government was complicit. A real conspiracy documented in real time.

Eva Orner

Bikram Choudhury built a hot yoga empire and a cult of personality. Then the sexual assault allegations started pouring in and he fled the country.

LEMMiNO

LEMMiNO's deep-dive into the internet's most elaborate puzzle — from the first 4chan post to the unsolved Liber Primus. One of the best YouTube investigations ever made.

Tiller Russell

The insane true story of a Russian mobster, a Miami playboy, and a Cuban spy who tried to buy a Soviet submarine for a Colombian drug cartel. Truth stranger than fiction.

Daniel J. Clark

Compassionate documentary following flat earthers as they design experiments to prove the earth is flat — and accidentally prove it's round. More about the human need to belong than about science.

Jeremy Corbell

Bob Lazar claims he worked on reverse-engineering alien technology at S-4 near Area 51 in the late 1980s. This documentary lets him tell his story — and you decide.

Tim Wardle

Triplets separated at birth and reunited at 19 discover they were part of a secret psychological study. What starts as a feel-good reunion story becomes something darker.

Maclain Way, Chapman Way

The Rajneeshee cult builds a utopian city in rural Oregon, commits the largest bioterror attack in US history, and attempts to take over local government. You couldn't write this.

Kief Davidson

Investigates the 1976 shooting of Bob Marley and possible CIA involvement through Jamaica's political violence.

Chris Paine

Explores the implications of AI development, featuring Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, and other tech figures warning about artificial superintelligence.

Aaron & Melissa Dykes

A 3-year, 4-hour investigation into CIA mind control programs, social engineering, and Cold War human experimentation. The definitive MKUltra documentary.

Kirby Dick

Investigates the $400 billion medical device industry and how unregulated devices harm patients. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Errol Morris

Errol Morris's hybrid documentary about Frank Olson, a CIA scientist who died under mysterious circumstances during MKUltra. Part documentary, part dramatization, entirely haunting.

Michael Mazzola

Dr. Steven Greer presents testimony from military and government witnesses claiming UFO contact has been suppressed. Heavy on claims, light on verification.

Bryan Fogel

Filmmaker Bryan Fogel set out to prove how easy doping in sports was. He ended up exposing Russia's state-sponsored doping program and befriending the whistleblower who brought it down. Won the Oscar.

Michael Oswald

How Britain built a global network of offshore tax havens after losing its empire — a second, invisible empire of finance. Over 1 million YouTube views. Free by design. A real conspiracy documented with receipts.

Michael Oswald

How Britain transformed from a colonial empire into a global financial empire through offshore tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions, and the City of London. A conspiracy hiding in plain sight.

Todd Nilssen

Director Todd Nilssen — himself an Elan graduate — chronicles the history and abuses of the Elan School in Poland, Maine. Forced fights in 'the Ring,' attack therapy, and decades of institutional sadism.

PBS

PBS documentary featuring firsthand accounts from survivors and first responders at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras's documentary portrait of Julian Assange during his years in the Ecuadorian embassy.

Adam Curtis (BBC)

Adam Curtis argues that since the 1970s, governments and financiers abandoned the real world and built a fake, simplified version to maintain power. Prophetic about post-truth politics before the term existed.

Will Allen

A filmmaker who spent 22 years inside the Buddhafield cult turns his own footage into a devastating documentary. Shot by a true believer, which makes it uniquely unsettling.

VICE / HBO

VICE's Shane Smith interviews Edward Snowden in Moscow. Snowden disassembles a cellphone to show exactly how NSA surveillance works.

Irene Taylor Brodsky

HBO examines the 2014 Waukesha stabbing, in which two 12-year-old girls attacked their friend to appease a fictional internet character. A disturbing look at where internet fiction meets real-world violence.

Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney's documentary on Scientology based on Lawrence Wright's book. Features former high-ranking members describing abuse, surveillance, and control.

Laura Ricciardi, Moira Demos

The Steven Avery case: wrongful conviction, exoneration, re-arrest for murder, and questions about whether the police framed him. Two seasons of agonizing ambiguity.

James Corbett (The Corbett Report)

Traces the Rockefeller dynasty from Standard Oil through modern petrochemical dominance — medicine, agriculture, education, and finance. 8.5 on IMDB. Corbett Report's best work.

Adam Curtis (BBC)

Adam Curtis uses raw, unedited BBC footage to tell the story of Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and the West — a collage film about how simplified narratives led to catastrophic foreign policy.

Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott

Noam Chomsky in 75 minutes distills his life's work into ten principles of how elite power concentrates wealth and undermines democracy. His most accessible work.

Amy Berg

Warren Jeffs and the FLDS Church — how the self-proclaimed prophet controlled thousands of followers, arranged child marriages, and evaded the FBI.

Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras filmed Edward Snowden in real time as he disclosed NSA mass surveillance documents. Won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Francis Richard Conolly

Three-and-a-half hour deep dive tracing the connections between wealthy elites, the JFK assassination, and 9/11. 8.6 on IMDB. Keeps getting pulled from YouTube and re-uploaded. Controversial but compulsively watchable.

James Corbett (The Corbett Report)

James Corbett's meticulously sourced documentary on the creation and operation of the Federal Reserve. Better researched than most in the genre. Free on YouTube.

Kate Logan

Teenagers removed from their homes and sent to a Christian behavior modification and ex-gay school in the Dominican Republic. Won Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at Slamdance.

John Lundberg, Roland Denning, Kypros Kyprianou

Reveals how the US Air Force deliberately promoted UFO disinformation to hide classified military projects — the government wasn't just covering up UFOs, it was creating the UFO myth.

Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney's documentary on WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning — from the early idealism to the complications that followed.

Massimo Mazzucco

Five-hour documentary that systematically presents both the official account and the 9/11 Truth movement's objections, point by point. 8.8 on IMDB. Director made it free intentionally. The most thorough 9/11 documentary ever made.

Michael Rivero

Short documentary tracing every major American war to banking and financial interests. YouTube-native. Punchy, polemical, and endlessly shared in conspiracy communities.

Robert May

Two Pennsylvania judges took $2.6 million in kickbacks to send 3,000+ children to for-profit juvenile detention for minor offenses. The scandal that proved the troubled teen industry's corruption goes all the way to the bench.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their massacres in the style of their favorite Hollywood genres. The most disturbing documentary ever made. Oscar-nominated. A real conspiracy of silence about genocide.

Ross Ashcroft

23 international thinkers on the systemic flaws in Western democracy and capitalism — banking, terrorism, resources, and the decline of empires. Features Chomsky, Stiglitz, and others.

Maria Demopoulos, Jodi Wille

The story of Father Yod and the Source Family — a 1970s LA commune, health food restaurant empire, and psychedelic rock band that ended in tragedy in Hawaii.

Kirby Dick

Exposes the epidemic of sexual assault in the US military and the systematic cover-up by military leadership. Led directly to policy changes by the Department of Defense.

Adam Curtis (BBC)

Adam Curtis's three-part series arguing that computers have failed to liberate us and instead have distorted and simplified our view of the world. Covers Ayn Rand's influence on Silicon Valley, ecosystems as machines, and the Congo.

Peter Joseph

Third Zeitgeist film. Examines the structural violence of the monetary-market system through interviews with economists, scientists, and social critics.

Foster Gamble

Follows the money upstream to uncover global power consolidation. Free energy suppression, banking cartels, media control. 82+ million views across 27 languages.

Keith Allen

Financed by Mohamed Al-Fayed, arguing British and French authorities covered up facts about Princess Diana's death. Banned in the UK, required 87 cuts for certification.

Jon Foy

Justin Duerr's obsessive hunt to identify the anonymous artist embedding cryptic tiles about resurrecting the dead on Jupiter into city streets across the Americas. Won Best Director at Sundance.

Charles Ferguson

Oscar-winning documentary about the 2008 financial crisis. Narrated by Matt Damon. Makes the case that the crash was not an accident but the result of systematic deregulation and fraud.

Scott Noble

Documentary on the history of propaganda and psychological warfare — from Bernays to modern PR to military psyops. Connects the dots between advertising, politics, and mind control.

John Pilger

John Pilger investigates how the media becomes complicit in war through embedded journalism, propaganda, and self-censorship. Covers Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel-Palestine.

Scott Noble

Companion to Psywar. Traces the history of social control — from behaviorism to MKUltra to modern surveillance capitalism. How humans became 'resources' to be managed.

Nicole Rittenmeyer

History Channel documentary using raw footage and archival material from November 22, 1963, with minimal narration — letting the events speak.

James Fox

James Fox's follow-up to 'Out of the Blue' features the Phoenix Lights witnesses alongside military and government officials who've come forward about UFO encounters.

Peter Joseph

The sequel to Zeitgeist focuses on the Federal Reserve, economic hitmen, and proposes a resource-based economy as an alternative to the monetary system.

Shane O'Sullivan

Examines the evidence around Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, the Sirhan Sirhan case, and the second shooter theory.

Peter Joseph

THE early YouTube conspiracy documentary. Three parts: Christianity as recycled mythology, 9/11 as inside job, and the Federal Reserve as a fraud. Tens of millions of views. Heavily debunked but historically significant as the film that proved documentaries could go viral online.

Adam Curtis (BBC)

Adam Curtis's three-part series on how a simplified model of human beings as self-interested agents was used to create today's idea of 'freedom' — which is actually a form of control.

Martin Durkin (Channel 4)

Channel 4 documentary arguing that climate change is not caused by CO2. Widely criticized by scientists and Ofcom. Historically significant as one of the most influential climate denial media productions.

John Pilger

John Pilger documents how the US covertly toppled legitimate governments across Latin America since the 1950s. Interviews ex-CIA agents. Won Best Documentary at 2008 One World Awards.

Ray Nowosielski

Follows the Jersey Girls — four 9/11 widows who pressured the government into creating the 9/11 Commission and then criticized its findings.

Terence Raymond

Six-part series using ONLY raw archival news footage to reexamine the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, MKUltra, and Jonestown. Zero narration bias — just the original footage that was broadcast once and buried. Made on a home computer with zero budget.

Aaron Russo

Aaron Russo's documentary arguing that the Federal Reserve is unconstitutional and the income tax is illegally enforced. Russo was a Hollywood producer (Trading Places) who became a libertarian activist. He died a year after release.

Stanley Nelson (PBS)

Definitive PBS documentary on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, featuring interviews with survivors and archival footage of life inside Jonestown before the massacre.

Dylan Avery

The 9/11 truther documentary that went viral on early YouTube. Historically significant as a cultural artifact, though its claims have been extensively debunked.

Alex Gibney

How Enron executives artificially inflated stock prices while California burned — literally. A real conspiracy, documented in devastating detail.

Ryan Thurston

Examines the death of FBI counterterrorism chief John O'Neill, who was forced out of the FBI, took a job at the World Trade Center, and died on 9/11 — his first day of work. Explores whether his investigation into al-Qaeda was deliberately sabotaged.

Michael Moore

Michael Moore's polemic examining the Bush administration's response to 9/11, the War on Terror, and connections between the Bush and bin Laden families. Won the Palme d'Or.

BBC

Long-running BBC documentary series examining major conspiracy theories with journalistic rigor. Episodes cover 9/11, Oklahoma City, Diana, and more.

Adam Curtis (BBC)

Adam Curtis traces parallel histories of neoconservatism and radical Islamism, arguing both movements exaggerated threats to maintain power. The BBC wouldn't air it in the US. Three parts, all essential.

John Pilger

John Pilger's documentary on how the British government secretly expelled the entire population of the Chagos Islands to build a US military base on Diego Garcia. A real conspiracy. An entire people erased.

BBC Two

BBC reporter Raphael Rowe visits Tranquility Bay in Jamaica — a WWASPS behavior modification facility — and documents 'Observational Placement' punishment, isolation, and abuse. Free on YouTube.

Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott

Examines the modern corporation as a legal 'person' and diagnoses it as a psychopath. A foundational text of the anti-corporate movement.

Lutz Dammbeck

German documentary connecting Ted Kaczynski's MKUltra participation at Harvard, the counterculture, cybernetics, and the birth of the internet. Draws a line from CIA mind control experiments to Silicon Valley.

Errol Morris

Errol Morris interviews former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who reflects on the firebombing of Tokyo, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the lies that built the Vietnam War. Won the Oscar.

Adam Curtis (BBC)

Adam Curtis's four-part masterpiece on how Freud's nephew Edward Bernays invented public relations and taught corporations and governments to control the masses through desire rather than force. Genuinely one of the best documentaries ever made.

Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson infiltrates the Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Grove, and the world of conspiracy theorists. Equal parts hilarious and unsettling. The basis for his book 'Them'.

Alex Jones

Alex Jones sneaks into the Bohemian Grove compound with a hidden camera and films the Cremation of Care ritual. Whatever you think of Jones, this is the only footage of the ceremony that exists. Historically significant.

Adam Curtis (BBC)

Adam Curtis traces how a group of adventurous entrepreneurs from the Clermont Club in Mayfair changed the shape of British capitalism — asset stripping, hostile takeovers, and the financialization of everything.

Jason Van Vleet

Follow-up to Rules of Engagement. Presents new evidence including forensic analysis, infrared footage, and testimony from former government officials questioning the official narrative.

Various

Former CIA operatives speak on camera about assassinations, coups, drug trafficking, and operations they participated in. Firsthand testimony from the people who did it.

William Gazecki

Academy Award-nominated documentary presenting evidence that the FBI used excessive force at Waco, including FLIR footage analysis suggesting agents fired into the compound during the final assault.

Bill Still

Three-and-a-half hour deep dive into the history of central banking, from the Bank of England to the Federal Reserve. Dense, exhaustive, and the foundational text of Federal Reserve conspiracy thinking. Free on YouTube since forever.

Adam Curtis (BBC)

Adam Curtis on how history is manipulated and memory is manufactured to serve power — from post-war denazification to Margaret Thatcher's invention of Victorian values.

Tim Tate

Documentary on the Franklin child sex abuse coverup in Nebraska. Was scheduled to air on Discovery Channel, then pulled at the last minute under political pressure. All copies were ordered destroyed. A leaked rough cut is all that survives.

Adam Curtis (BBC)

Adam Curtis's six-part series on how political and technocratic elites used scientific and rational models to reshape society — and the unintended consequences. Covers game theory, Soviet planning, and nuclear strategy.

Allan Francovich (BBC)

BBC documentary exposing NATO's secret 'stay-behind' armies in Europe — covert networks that carried out terrorist attacks and blamed them on the left. A confirmed conspiracy that most people have never heard of.

Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick

Documentary based on Chomsky and Herman's propaganda model — how 'free' media systematically filters information to serve elite interests. The foundational text of media criticism.

Deb Ellis, Denis Mueller

Combines declassified documents, interviews, and rare footage to investigate the FBI's role in targeting Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and MLK through the COINTELPRO program.

Errol Morris

Errol Morris's landmark documentary proved a man on death row was innocent and the real killer was still free. Changed documentary filmmaking and saved a life.

Barbara Trent

Documentary on Iran-Contra made while the hearings were still happening. Covers arms deals, drug trafficking, and the constitutional crisis of a shadow foreign policy.

Bill Moyers (PBS)

Bill Moyers's PBS documentary on Iran-Contra and the shadow government that operated outside constitutional authority. Made in 1987, still relevant. Essential viewing.

Ara Chekmayan, Richard Kotuk

Oscar-nominated PBS documentary featuring footage inside the Elan School and other institutions for mentally ill and emotionally troubled youth. One of the earliest filmed exposés of institutional abuse of children.

Greg Berlanti

Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in a romantic comedy about NASA hiring a marketing expert to fake a backup moon landing in case Apollo 11 fails.

Juel Taylor

John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, and Teyonah Parris discover a secret government agency running clandestine experiments — including human cloning — on working-class Black communities.

Alejandro Monteverde

Jim Caviezel as anti-trafficking operative Tim Ballard. Became a massive box office hit and a cultural flashpoint in conspiracy communities.

Roland Emmerich

The Moon is a megastructure and it's falling toward Earth. Roland Emmerich's big-budget hollow moon conspiracy movie.

Adam McKay

Scientists discover a comet will destroy Earth and nobody cares. Adam McKay's heavy-handed but effective satire about science denial, media, and political dysfunction.

Todd Haynes

Mark Ruffalo stars as the lawyer who exposed DuPont's decades-long coverup of PFAS contamination. Based on the true story. A real conspiracy.

Scott Z. Burns

Adam Driver as the Senate staffer who investigated the CIA's post-9/11 torture program and fought to release the findings. Based on real events.

Gavin Hood

Keira Knightley as Katharine Gun, the GCHQ translator who leaked an NSA memo revealing illegal spying on UN diplomats before the Iraq War vote.

Ari Aster

Ari Aster's daylight horror masterpiece. American grad students visit a Swedish commune for a midsummer festival that turns into something far more ancient and terrible.

David Robert Mitchell

Andrew Garfield searches for a missing woman and falls down a rabbit hole of secret messages, underground tunnels, and pop culture conspiracies in Los Angeles. David Robert Mitchell's paranoid fever dream.

Sylvain White

Sony's widely panned horror film about teenagers who summon Slender Man. Released during the real-world trial of the Waukesha stabbers, which is somehow both the most and least interesting thing about it.

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone's dramatization of Edward Snowden's journey from NSA contractor to whistleblower. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars.

Matt Johnson

Found-footage thriller about CIA agents who infiltrate NASA in 1967 and end up faking the moon landing. Clever, low-budget, surprisingly effective.

Michael Cuesta

Jeremy Renner as Gary Webb, the journalist who exposed CIA complicity in crack cocaine trafficking — and was destroyed by the establishment for it. A true conspiracy.

Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

HYDRA has infiltrated SHIELD. A superhero film that's actually a surprisingly sharp 1970s-style political thriller wrapped in spandex.

Sean Durkin

Elizabeth Olsen's breakout performance as a young woman struggling to reintegrate into normal life after escaping a Catskill Mountains cult. Quietly devastating.

Roman Polanski

Ewan McGregor ghostwrites for a former British PM and uncovers CIA connections. Polanski's taut thriller, loosely inspired by Tony Blair.

Martin Scorsese

Leonardo DiCaprio investigates a disappearance at a psychiatric hospital on a remote island. Nothing is what it seems. Scorsese's psychological conspiracy thriller.

Ron Howard

Tom Hanks races through Vatican City to stop the Illuminati from destroying the College of Cardinals with antimatter. Dan Brown adaptation.

Paul Greengrass

Bourne traces the conspiracy to its source. The trilogy's conclusion and arguably the best entry — the Waterloo Station sequence is a masterclass in tension.

Tony Gilroy

George Clooney plays a law firm's 'fixer' who discovers his client — an agrochemical giant — has been covering up a carcinogenic product. Tilda Swinton won the Oscar.

David Fincher

David Fincher's obsessive, methodical investigation of the Zodiac killer case. The film that proves the scariest thing about a conspiracy is when you can never solve it.

Ron Howard

Tom Hanks follows clues through European art and architecture to uncover the truth about the Holy Grail. The film that made everyone an expert on the Priory of Sion.

Stephen Gaghan

Interlocking stories of CIA agents, energy brokers, and Middle Eastern politics. George Clooney gained 30 pounds and won the Oscar. Based loosely on the memoirs of CIA officer Robert Baer.

Jonathan Demme

Denzel Washington remake updating the brainwashing concept from Cold War communism to corporate military-industrial control.

Paul Greengrass

Bourne investigates his own past while a CIA official frames him for a botched operation. The shaky cam sequel that launched a thousand imitators.

Jon Turteltaub

Nicolas Cage steals the Declaration of Independence to find a Masonic treasure map on the back. Dumb, fun, and responsible for a generation of Freemason Googling.

Jang Joon-hwan

A disturbed man kidnaps his former boss, believing him to be an alien prince planning Earth's destruction. Korean genre-bending cult classic.

Doug Liman

An amnesiac discovers he's a CIA black ops assassin. Matt Damon redefined the action genre and made 'rogue agency program' a standard thriller plot.

Peter Howitt

A programmer at a Microsoft-like tech giant discovers his boss is murdering open-source developers. Ryan Phillippe and Tim Robbins.

Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes

Johnny Depp investigates Jack the Ripper and uncovers a Masonic/Royal conspiracy. Based on Alan Moore's graphic novel.

Steven Soderbergh

Julia Roberts won the Oscar for this true story of a legal clerk who uncovered PG&E's massive cover-up of groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California.

The Wachowskis

Reality is a simulation. The red pill awakens you. The Wachowskis created the most influential conspiracy metaphor of the 21st century — co-opted by everyone from incels to tech bros to political movements.

Stanley Kubrick

Kubrick's final film. Tom Cruise stumbles into a masked orgy hosted by the ultra-wealthy elite. Conspiracy theorists have been analyzing every frame since. Kubrick died before the final cut.

Mark Pellington

A college professor suspects his suburban neighbor is a domestic terrorist. Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges in a thriller with one of the best endings in the genre.

Michael Mann

Russell Crowe and Al Pacino in the true story of tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand and CBS's attempts to suppress his 60 Minutes testimony. 7 Oscar nominations.

Tony Scott

Will Smith is framed by rogue NSA agents and hunted using surveillance technology. Eerily prescient — made three years before 9/11 and fifteen years before Snowden proved it was real.

Alex Proyas

A man wakes with amnesia in a city where reality is manufactured nightly by mysterious beings. Released a year before The Matrix, equally visionary, criminally underrated.

Peter Weir

Jim Carrey's entire life is a TV show and he doesn't know it. A parable about manufactured reality that became a diagnostic term — 'Truman Show delusion' is now a recognized psychiatric condition.

Richard Donner

Mel Gibson plays a paranoid New York taxi driver whose conspiracy newsletter accidentally hits on a real conspiracy. Julia Roberts is the DOJ lawyer he stalks. The 90s were different.

Barry Levinson

A Hollywood producer is hired to fabricate a war to distract from a presidential scandal. Released one month before the Lewinsky scandal. Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman.

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood plays a burglar who witnesses the President kill his mistress during sex. Gene Hackman as the murderous Commander in Chief.

Irwin Winkler

Sandra Bullock discovers a conspiracy through a computer program and has her identity erased. Peak 90s techno-thriller — the internet was scary and new.

Alan J. Pakula

Julia Roberts writes a legal brief theorizing why two Supreme Court justices were murdered — and becomes a target. Based on the Grisham novel.

Wolfgang Petersen

Clint Eastwood as a Secret Service agent haunted by his failure to protect JFK, now tracking a new assassination plot. John Malkovich is magnificent as the villain.

Tim Robbins

Tim Robbins wrote, directed, and stars as a folk-singing right-wing Senate candidate who fakes his own assassination attempt. Political satire that aged like wine.

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone's sprawling, three-hour case for conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination. Controversial, compelling, and the film that forced the government to release classified JFK files.

John Carpenter

'I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass — and I'm all out of bubblegum.' John Carpenter's satirical sci-fi about hidden alien overlords controlling humanity through subliminal advertising.

John Badham

Roy Scheider flies a military helicopter equipped with surveillance technology and discovers a plot to use it against American citizens. Pre-drone paranoia.

Mike Nichols

Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood, the nuclear plant worker who died under suspicious circumstances while investigating safety violations at Kerr-McGee.

Brian De Palma

John Travolta plays a sound technician who accidentally records a political assassination. De Palma's riff on the Zapruder film and The Conversation.

William Richert

A thinly-veiled JFK assassination satire with Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, and Elizabeth Taylor. Wild, darkly comic, and practically unseen.

Bob Clark

Sherlock Holmes investigates Jack the Ripper and uncovers a Masonic conspiracy connected to the Royal Family. Christopher Plummer as Holmes.

Michael Crichton

A hospital is deliberately putting patients into comas to harvest their organs. Genevieve Bujold investigates. Michael Crichton directs.

John Hough

Fictionalized account of the theory that General Patton was assassinated to prevent him from revealing a gold heist conspiracy.

Peter Hyams

NASA fakes a Mars landing and then has to kill the astronauts who know. O.J. Simpson is one of the astronauts. The 1970s were wild.

Alan J. Pakula

Woodward and Bernstein investigate Watergate. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in the film that made journalism look heroic. The gold standard of the conspiracy thriller genre.

Sidney Lumet

'I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!' Paddy Chayefsky's savage satire about television news predicted the future with terrifying accuracy.

Sydney Pollack

Robert Redford plays a CIA analyst who discovers his entire office has been murdered. He goes on the run and discovers a conspiracy within the agency. Peak 1970s paranoia.

Francis Ford Coppola

Gene Hackman plays a surveillance expert who records a conversation that may reveal a murder plot. Coppola's claustrophobic paranoia masterpiece, released months before Nixon's tapes surfaced.

Alan J. Pakula

Warren Beatty investigates a senator's assassination and discovers a shadowy corporation that recruits and trains political assassins. The darkest of the 1970s paranoia trilogy.

Roman Polanski

Jack Nicholson investigates a water rights conspiracy in 1930s Los Angeles. Polanski's neo-noir masterpiece about the corruption at the foundation of American cities.

David Miller

A group of wealthy businessmen and rogue intelligence operatives plot the assassination of JFK. One of the earliest JFK conspiracy films.

Richard Quine

Columbia Pictures drama filmed at the actual Synanon House on Santa Monica beach — before anyone knew the 'cure' would become a cult. Edmond O'Brien, Chuck Connors, Eartha Kitt. A time capsule of when people still believed.

Stanley Kubrick

A deranged general orders a nuclear strike on Russia. Kubrick's black comedy about mutually assured destruction is the funniest film about the end of the world ever made.

John Frankenheimer

A Korean War veteran is brainwashed into becoming a political assassin. Frank Sinatra in the original Cold War paranoia masterpiece. Still chilling.

Mae Martin

Toni Collette plays the charismatic founder of a troubled teen school hiding dark secrets in small-town Vermont. Created by Mae Martin, explicitly inspired by CEDU and the real troubled teen industry. Set in 2003. The fiction that finally made the mainstream care.

Netflix

Netflix docuseries on the troubled teen industry's cult-like boarding schools. Kidnapping transports, attack therapy, and the political machine that protects them.

Derek Doneen

TikTok influencers allegedly brainwashed by Robert Shinn's Shekinah Church through his 7M Films talent management company. The cult went viral before anyone realized what was happening.

National Geographic docuseries reconstructing November 18, 1978 — the day Jim Jones orchestrated the murder-suicide of over 900 people in Guyana.

Five-part docuseries on Ervil LeBaron, the 'Mormon Manson,' and his fundamentalist polygamous cult that carried out murders spanning decades.

Four-part HBO docuseries on how a drug rehabilitation program evolved into a violent cult — and how its attack therapy methods spawned decades of teen abuse programs.

Legendary reporter George Knapp travels the globe uncovering new evidence about UFOs/UAPs. Netflix's major UFO entry.

Tara Malone

Three-part HBO docuseries featuring Bhad Bhabie and survivors of Provo Canyon School, the facility Paris Hilton exposed. The industry's political connections and the parents who paid for abuse.

Graham Yost

People live in a massive underground silo. Going outside is fatal. Questions about the outside world are forbidden. Based on Hugh Howey's novels.

Shawn Ryan

A low-level FBI agent answers a phone in the White House basement and gets pulled into a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of power.

Cecilia Peck

Three-part Netflix docuseries exposing Twin Flames Universe, an online cult that preys on lonely people looking for love through coercion, stalking, and forced gender identity changes.

Zach Heinzerling

Larry Ray manipulated Sarah Lawrence College students over a decade through psychological abuse, sex trafficking, and extortion. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Hannah Olson

Amy Carlson claimed to be a 534-billion-year-old divine being called Mother God. Her followers livestreamed everything until her death exposed the horror behind the facade.

Netflix docuseries exposing multiple cults in South Korea that prey on young students through manipulation, sexual abuse, and claims of divinity.

Intelligence operatives from MI6, CIA, and Mossad share insider accounts of real spy operations, assassinations, and Cold War campaigns. Eight episodes of jaw-dropping tradecraft.

Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster

Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler in Netflix's take on the Purdue Pharma opioid catastrophe. Based on Patrick Radden Keefe's reporting.

Joe Berlinger

The rise and fall of Bernie Madoff, who orchestrated history's biggest Ponzi scheme — $65 billion in fabricated returns. Four episodes of financial horror.

Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck

Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy — the Nixon saboteurs who accidentally toppled the presidency they were trying to protect.

Geeta Gandbhir

Paramount+ docuseries on children born inside the Synanon cult — raised on attack therapy, shaved heads, and Charles Dederich's vision of a 'new society.' The origin story of everything CEDU became.

Hanno Hackfort, Bob Konrad, Richard Kropf

A former East German spy is released after the Wall falls and discovers she was betrayed by her own side. German-language Netflix series. Stylish and violent.

David DiGilio

Chris Pratt as a Navy SEAL who discovers a conspiracy behind his team's ambush. Based on Jack Carr's novel.

Rachel Dretzin

Four-part Netflix docuseries on the FLDS Church and Warren Jeffs — polygamy, arranged child marriages, and the systematic abuse of women and children under the guise of religion.

Dan Erickson

Employees undergo surgery to split their memories between work and personal lives. What starts as a workplace drama becomes a conspiracy thriller about corporate control of consciousness. Emmy/Peabody-winning.

Will Smith (showrunner)

Gary Oldman leads a team of disgraced MI5 agents who keep stumbling into real intelligence conspiracies. Based on Mick Herron's novels. 97% RT, Emmy-winning.

Dustin Lance Black

Andrew Garfield as a detective investigating a murder connected to Mormon fundamentalism. Based on Jon Krakauer's bestselling book.

Elizabeth Meriwether

Amanda Seyfried's Emmy-winning performance as Elizabeth Holmes. Theranos promised to revolutionize blood testing — it was all fraud.

Shion Takeuchi

Animated Netflix comedy set in a shadow government that manages all the world's conspiracy theories. Every conspiracy is real, and a dysfunctional team has to keep them secret.

Marina Zenovich

Five-part docuseries on Gwen Shamblin Lara's Weigh Down Workshop turned Remnant Fellowship church. Abuse allegations, financial exploitation, and her death in a plane crash.

Jared Hess, Tyler Measom

Mark Hofmann, the world's greatest forger, created fake Mormon documents so convincing they threatened LDS Church foundations — then killed to cover it up.

Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson

A high school soccer team's plane crashes in the wilderness. What starts as survival becomes something ritualistic and cult-like. Dual timeline present-day thriller.

Danny Strong

Michael Keaton in the Emmy-winning series on how Purdue Pharma knowingly triggered America's opioid epidemic. Based on Beth Macy's bestselling book.

Terry Dunn Meurer

Netflix reboot of the classic series. Covers unexplained disappearances, paranormal encounters, and unsolved crimes with the iconic 'spooky music plus no resolution' formula.

Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer

Two-season HBO docuseries exposing NXIVM and Keith Raniere from the perspectives of high-profile ex-members. Gripping, devastating, and meticulously documented.

Cecilia Peck

India Oxenberg speaks about her experience as a branded member of NXIVM's secret DOS group. A companion piece to The Vow told from the victim's perspective.

Clay Tweel

Four-part docuseries with never-before-seen footage of the UFO cult led by Marshall Applewhite that ended in the 1997 mass suicide of 39 members in San Diego.

Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney

Hulu miniseries based on Lawrence Wright's book, dramatizing the rivalry between the CIA and FBI that contributed to intelligence failures before 9/11.

Elizabeth Vargas

Elizabeth Vargas investigates NXIVM, Jehovah's Witnesses, FLDS, Scientology, and other organizations accused of cult-like behavior. A&E investigative series.

John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle

Six-part dramatization of the 1993 Branch Davidians standoff. Taylor Kitsch as David Koresh, Michael Shannon as the FBI negotiator. Humanizes both sides of the siege.

Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney's anthology series on corporate corruption, securities fraud, and creative accounting. From Volkswagen's emissions scam to HSBC's drug money laundering. 100% RT Season 1.

Justin Marks

J.K. Simmons plays a UN employee who discovers a parallel Earth accessed through a secret crossing point in Berlin. Cold War espionage meets sci-fi.

The Duffer Brothers

Government experiments open a portal to a parallel dimension in small-town Indiana. MKUltra meets Dungeons & Dragons with 80s nostalgia.

Jessica Goldberg

Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, and Hugh Dancy in a family drama set inside a fictional cult movement called Meyerism. Three seasons of escalating manipulation and moral collapse.

Sam Esmail

An unstable cybersecurity engineer and hacker joins an anarchist group planning to destroy all debt records held by the world's largest conglomerate. Rami Malek won the Emmy.

Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby

Hard science fiction set in a colonized solar system where Earth, Mars, and the Belt are on the brink of war — and a protomolecule threatens everything. Corporate and government conspiracies layer on top of first-rate sci-fi.

Tina Fey, Robert Carlock

Tina Fey comedy about a woman adjusting to New York City life after 15 years trapped in a doomsday cult bunker. Surprisingly sharp on cult psychology beneath the laughs.

Nic Pizzolatto

Season 1: McConaughey and Harrelson investigate ritual murders that reveal a conspiracy spanning decades and reaching into Louisiana's power structure. One of television's finest hours.

Joe Weisberg

KGB sleeper agents pose as a suburban American couple in Reagan-era Washington. One of the greatest TV dramas ever made and the best show about espionage, period.

Dennis Kelly

British thriller about a group of comic fans who discover their favorite graphic novel predicted real pandemics — and a shadowy organization is hunting them. Prophetically prescient. The US remake is inferior.

Alex Hirsch

Animated Disney series about twins who discover supernatural mysteries in a small Oregon town. Secret societies, cryptids, and interdimensional portals — for kids!

Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa

Claire Danes as a bipolar CIA officer who suspects a rescued POW has been turned by al-Qaeda. Paranoia, politics, and geopolitics across eight seasons.

Jason Horwitch

An analyst at a think tank discovers patterns in crossword puzzles that reveal a conspiracy. Slow-burn, cerebral, cancelled too soon. A cult favorite.

TruTV

Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura investigates conspiracy theories with his team. Entertaining if not always rigorous.

Paul Scheuring

Michael Scofield breaks his wrongfully convicted brother out of prison and discovers 'The Company' — a shadowy organization controlling American politics.

Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz

X-Files spinoff about three conspiracy-obsessed nerds. The pilot episode — which aired March 2001 — featured a plot to crash a hijacked plane into the World Trade Center. Yes, really.

Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran

Jack Bauer saves the world in real time, one season at a time. Each season features a new conspiracy — bioweapons, nuclear threats, corrupt presidents, shadowy cabals.

Chris Carter

Two FBI agents investigate unexplained cases — one believes, one is skeptical. The show that defined conspiracy television and made 'The truth is out there' a cultural mantra.

Byron Tau

Documents how the federal government formed alliances with private companies to collect data on citizens — creating a surveillance apparatus that makes the NSA look quaint.

Colin Dickey

How fear of secret societies — from anti-Catholics to anti-Masons to QAnon — has shaped American democracy from the founding to today.

Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein explores how conspiracy theories create a 'mirror world' that inverts reality, using her own experience of being confused with Naomi Wolf as a starting point.

Derek Abbott

Professor Derek Abbott's account of his decades-long investigation into the Somerton Man — the unidentified body found on an Adelaide beach in 1948 with a scrap of Persian poetry in his pocket.

Elizabeth Williamson

Elizabeth Williamson's definitive account of the Sandy Hook massacre and the conspiracy theories that tormented the victims' families.

Max Fisher

NYT investigative reporter Max Fisher tracks how Big Tech's algorithmic race for engagement fractured the world — from pandemic disinfo to the Capitol insurrection.

Anna Merlan

Anna Merlan explores modern American conspiracy culture — from Alex Jones to anti-vaxxers to QAnon — and the social conditions that fuel it.

Tom O'Neill

Tom O'Neill spent 20 years investigating the Manson murders and found connections to MKUltra, the CIA, and a government informant network that shouldn't exist.

Stephen Kinzer

The definitive biography of Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA chemist who ran MKUltra — LSD experiments, mind control research, assassination plots, and the destruction of evidence.

Shoshana Zuboff

Shoshana Zuboff's landmark work on how tech companies turned human experience into raw material for prediction and profit. The conspiracy is in the business model.

Christopher Wylie

Christopher Wylie — the whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica — tells the inside story of how a data company weaponized Facebook to undermine democracy.

Yasha Levine

The military origins of the internet — how a counterinsurgency tool became Silicon Valley and how tech companies became the new surveillance state.

Mick West

Practical guide for helping people who've fallen into conspiracy theories — from chemtrails to flat earth to 9/11 truth. Written by the creator of Metabunk.

Jane Mayer

Jane Mayer exposes the Koch brothers' network of wealthy donors who spent billions to reshape American politics. A real conspiracy, meticulously documented.

Jesse Walker

Five recurring conspiracy narratives in American culture, from colonial witch panics to post-9/11 theories. The best single-volume history of American conspiracy thinking.

Donnie Eichar

Donnie Eichar retraces the doomed hikers' path and proposes an infrasound theory for what drove them from their tent into the freezing Siberian night.

Jonathan Kay

Canadian journalist Jonathan Kay embeds with 9/11 truthers, birthers, and other conspiracy communities to understand the psychology and social dynamics.

Annie Jacobsen

Annie Jacobsen's deep dive into the real history of Area 51, based on interviews with scientists and engineers who worked there. The truth is fascinating without aliens.

David Aaronovitch

David Aaronovitch examines why conspiracy theories persist, from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to 9/11 trutherism.

Tim Weiner

Tim Weiner's Pulitzer-winning history of the CIA, drawn from 50,000 declassified documents. The real conspiracies are damning enough without the theories.

Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright traces al-Qaeda from its origins to 9/11, exposing the CIA-FBI rivalry that let the attacks happen. Pulitzer Prize winner.

Ronald L. Numbers

Ronald Numbers traces the history of creationism from 'creation science' to Intelligent Design — the most comprehensive academic study of the movement.

Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson investigates the US Army's experiments with psychic warfare, including remote viewing, walking through walls, and killing goats by staring at them.

Michael Barkun

How conspiracy theories moved from the political fringe to the mainstream. Michael Barkun traces the evolution of conspiracist worldviews.

David Brock

David Brock's confessional memoir about his role in the conservative media machine that targeted the Clintons — then his defection to the other side.

Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson embeds with conspiracy theorists, infiltrates Bohemian Grove with Alex Jones, and discovers the humans behind the paranoia. Funny, empathetic, essential.

Joe Conason, Gene Lyons

The ten-year campaign to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, from the Arkansas Project to impeachment.

Norman Cohn

The definitive study of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion — tracing how a fabricated document became the most influential conspiracy text in history.

Richard Hofstadter

The foundational text on conspiracy thinking in American politics. Richard Hofstadter identified the patterns that everyone from scholars to journalists still reference today.

Omar El Akkad

A second American Civil War fought over fossil fuels. Omar El Akkad's novel reads like prophecy — biological weapons, refugee camps, radicalization, and the conspiracy theories that fuel them.

Stieg Larsson

Stieg Larsson's Swedish thriller about a journalist and a hacker investigating a decades-old disappearance connected to a powerful family's dark secrets.

Philip Roth

Philip Roth's alternate history where Charles Lindbergh defeats FDR in 1940 and America aligns with Nazi Germany. Made into an HBO miniseries in 2020.

Dan Brown

Dan Brown's mega-bestseller about the Holy Grail, the Priory of Sion, and hidden codes in Leonardo da Vinci's art. Launched a thousand conspiracy tourists. 80 million copies sold.

Dan Brown

Robert Langdon vs. the Illuminati in Vatican City. Dan Brown's prequel to The Da Vinci Code, featuring antimatter and papal conclaves.

Umberto Eco

Three editors at a vanity press invent a grand unified conspiracy theory as a joke. Then it starts becoming real. Umberto Eco's literary conspiracy novel — smarter and stranger than The Da Vinci Code.

Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo's novelization of the JFK assassination, imagining Oswald as a figure manipulated by rogue intelligence operatives. The best literary treatment of the conspiracy.

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco's medieval mystery about murders in an Italian monastery linked to a forbidden book. Intellectual thriller meets conspiracy fiction.

Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson

The anarchic, psychedelic, satirical conspiracy bible. Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson crammed every conspiracy theory they could find into a sprawling, mind-bending narrative. Required reading for conspiracy culture.

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon's dense, paranoid masterpiece set at the end of World War II. V-2 rockets, Pavlovian conditioning, and corporate cartels that transcend national borders. Difficult, brilliant, essential.

Thomas Pynchon

A woman discovers what may be a centuries-old underground postal system — or may be her own paranoid delusion. Pynchon's short, accessible entry point to his conspiratorial universe.

Richard Condon

Richard Condon's novel about a brainwashed Korean War veteran programmed to assassinate a presidential candidate. Published four years before JFK's assassination.

George Orwell

Big Brother watches. Newspeak controls thought. History is rewritten. Orwell's dystopia gave us the vocabulary for discussing surveillance states, thought policing, and manufactured reality.

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis imagines a fascist president taking power in America. Written in 1935. Still relevant. Always relevant.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's vision of a world controlled not by force but by pleasure, drugs, and genetic engineering. Many argue it was more prescient than 1984.

AJ Gentile

YouTube show (and podcast) examining conspiracy theories, unexplained mysteries, and fringe science with high production values and genuine investigation.

BBC

BBC disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring goes undercover in the UK's conspiracy theory movement. Unsettling, empathetic, and essential.

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Where wellness culture meets conspiracy culture. Examines how yoga teachers became QAnon followers and influencers became anti-vaxxers.

Michael Isikoff

Yahoo News investigative journalist Michael Isikoff probes conspiracy theories with actual reporting. Series include Havana Syndrome and the Seth Rich murder.

Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, Julian Feeld

Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld started covering QAnon and expanded to reporting on the broader conspiracy theory ecosystem. Serious journalism with wit.

Chelsey Weber-Smith

Explores how fantastical thinking shapes culture through moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, and national misunderstandings. Smart, researched, and genuinely funny.

Dan Friesen, Jordan Holmes

Dan and Jordan monitor Alex Jones's Infowars broadcasts and fact-check them in real time. Essential during the Sandy Hook trial. Exhausting, necessary work.

Aaron Mahnke

Aaron Mahnke explores the dark folklore and real history behind supernatural beliefs. Atmospheric, well-researched, adapted into a TV series.

Scott Philbrook, Forrest Burgess

Deep-dive episodes on historical mysteries, legends, and unexplained phenomena. Known for multi-part series that leave no stone unturned.

Greg Carlwood

Long-form interviews with conspiracy researchers, paranormal investigators, and alternative historians. Believer-friendly deep dives.

Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Fictional community radio show from a desert town where every conspiracy theory is true. Lovecraft meets NPR. One of the most popular fiction podcasts ever.

Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski

Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, and Henry Zebrowski cover serial killers, cults, UFOs, and conspiracy theories with extensively researched comedy. The biggest conspiracy podcast.

Ben Bowlin, Noel Brown, Matt Frederick

iHeartRadio podcast covering conspiracy theories, unexplained phenomena, and government secrecy with a balanced, curious approach.

Benjamin Grundy, Aaron Wright

Australian podcast covering the paranormal, UFOs, cryptozoology, and fringe science. One of the longest-running mystery podcasts.

Remedy Entertainment

FBI agent Saga Anderson unravels a conspiracy in the Pacific Northwest while author Alan Wake rewrites reality from a dark dimension. Game Awards 2023 nominee.

Remedy Entertainment

You're the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Control — a secret government agency that studies and contains supernatural phenomena. SCP Foundation meets The X-Files.

Lucas Pope

A ghost ship returns to port with all hands dead or missing. You use a supernatural pocket watch to determine each crew member's fate. Puzzle-conspiracy masterpiece.

Lucas Pope

You're a border checkpoint inspector in a fictional communist state. Process papers. Spot forgeries. Make moral choices about who gets in. A conspiracy of bureaucracy.

Funcom

MMO where every conspiracy theory, myth, and urban legend is real. Choose to join the Illuminati, Templars, or Dragon as you fight Lovecraftian horrors.

Arkane Studios

A bodyguard framed for the Empress's murder uncovers a vast political conspiracy in a steampunk dystopia. Immersive sim masterpiece.

Eidos Montreal

Prequel exploring transhumanism, corporate power, and the Illuminati's influence over human augmentation technology. Stylish, smart cyberpunk.

Irrational Games (Ken Levine)

An underwater Objectivist utopia collapses into dystopian horror. Andrew Ryan's Rapture is Ayn Rand's philosophy stress-tested to destruction.

Ubisoft

Assassins vs. Templars across human history. The Apple of Eden controls minds. Historical figures are all secretly part of an ancient conspiracy. Turned millions of gamers into amateur historians.

Valve (Gabe Newell)

Earth is ruled by an alien empire enforced through a puppet government. Resistance fighters battle a surveillance state with gravity guns. One of the greatest games ever made.

Konami (Hideo Kojima)

Hideo Kojima predicted deepfakes, social media manipulation, and AI-controlled information ecosystems in 2001. The Patriots control information flow to shape reality. Prophetic.

Ion Storm (Warren Spector)

The conspiracy theory video game. Illuminati, Area 51, MJ-12, FEMA camps, and the New World Order crammed into an immersive sim that let you approach every situation your way. Legendary.

Rare

Joanna Dark investigates a defense contractor's alien conspiracy. Rare's spiritual successor to GoldenEye with a sci-fi conspiracy plot.