Underplayed Gems

The Libel Tourist (2007)

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This documentary looks at how wealthy people sometimes file unfair libel lawsuits in countries with friendly laws. The goal is to silence writers and publishers who share negative information about them. It focuses on cases where suing in places like England helps powerful figures hide the truth.

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What happens

The Libel Tourist is a short-form documentary film about how the advantageous litigative environments that exist in certain jurisdictions are used by powerful individuals to suppress unfavorable information about them by bringing forth unjustified libel suits against writers and publishers. The seeking out of such favorable environments, most notably the courts of England and Wales, has been dubbed libel tourism. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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