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The Secret Rulers of the World

Season: 1

Episode: 1

The Legend of Ruby Ridge

Air Date:29/04/2001

Jon Ronson meets with Randy Weaver and daughter Rachel, two of the surviving members of the Weaver family. The film shows previously unseen archive footage to describe the life of a family who claim to have moved to a cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, to live peacefully, and escape what they saw as the tyrannical elite of international bankers bent on enslaving the world. Ronson also explains how the Weaver family's conspiracy theories became a shocking tragedy when U.S. Marshals killed two of the family members, their dog, and shot and wounded Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris, whom the Weaver family considered their son. Ronson explores the unsympathetic media response to the killings and how this incident might have influenced the siege at Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the growth of the American militia movement.

Guest Stars

Name: Rachel Weaver

Character: Self

Department: Acting

Name: Randy Weaver

Character: Self – Rachel's Father

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Butler

Character: Self – Founder, Aryan Nations

Department: Acting

Name: Linda Eckstrom

Character: Self – Neighbor

Department: Acting

Name: Jack McLamb

Character: Self – Ex-Police Officer, Family Friend

Department: Acting

Name: Mike Johnson

Character: Self – US Marshal in Charge of the State of Idaho

Department: Acting

Name: Bill Maher

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: Timothy McVeigh

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: Dallas Pike

Character: Self – Guitarist (uncredited)

Department: Acting

Name: Sara Weaver

Character: Self – Rachel's Sister (archive footage)

Department: Acting

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Episode: 2

David Icke, The Lizards and The Jews

Air Date:06/05/2001

Jon Ronson follows David Icke as he promotes his theory that "the elite are genetically descended from a race of 12-foot, blood-drinking, shapeshifting lizards". During the film, Icke is accused by a leftist protest group (including Richard Warman, lawyer and former Green Party of Canada candidate) in Canada of antisemitism. The documentary explores the theme of whether Icke literally means lizards, as he steadfastly maintains, or whether the reptilians are a coded reference to Jews, an assertion which Icke vehemently denies. Ronson concludes that Icke is probably not an antisemite, and comes to have misgivings about the Icke protesters' methods and their attempts to silence Icke.

Guest Stars

Name: Terry Wogan

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Littlejohn

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: Gail Gans

Character: Self – Anti-Defamation League

Department: Acting

Name: Jack McLamb

Character: Self – Police Against the New World Order

Department: Acting

Name: Brian Mulroney

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: David Icke

Character: Self – Conspiracy Investigator

Department: Acting

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Episode: 3

April 19th: The Oklahoma Bomb

Air Date:13/05/2001

Before his involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing, Timothy McVeigh believed that a shadowy elite secretly controlled the governments of the world, conspiring to establish a genocidal New World Order. He believed that the Alfred P. Murrah building was local New World Order headquarters. But many other theorists are convinced that the world only knows part of an apparent complex conspiracy story behind the bombing. Ronson meets a number of theorists whilst investigating the story, and concludes his film in Elohim City, a private Christian Identity movement compound in Oklahoma.

Guest Stars

Name: Timothy McVeigh

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: Dan Herbeck

Character: Self – McVeigh's Official Biographer

Department: Acting

Name: Lou Michel

Character: Self – McVeigh's Official Biographer

Department: Acting

Name: Liz McDermott

Character: Self – McVeigh's Next Door Neighbor

Department: Acting

Name: Dennis Mahon

Character: Self – White Aryan Resistance

Department: Acting

Name: John Peeler

Character: Self – Ex Government Informant

Department: Acting

Name: David Koresh

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: Bob Ricks

Character: Self – Special Agent, FBI

Department: Acting

Name: Jim Ellison

Character: Self – Co-Conspirator

Department: Acting

Name: Oscar Johnson

Character: Self – Manager, Midwestern Elevator

Department: Acting

Name: Jack McDermott

Character: Self – McVeigh's Next Door Neighbor

Department: Acting

Name: JD Cash

Character: Self – McCurtain Gazette, Oklahoma

Department: Acting

Name: Carol Howe

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: Floyd Ratcliff

Character: Self – Owner, Lady Godiva's

Department: Acting

Name: Andreas Strassmeir

Character: Self

Department: Acting

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Episode: 4

The Satanic Shadowy Elite?

Air Date:20/05/2001

Jon Ronson follows conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones as Jones attempts to infiltrate the annual gathering of dignitaries and business leaders (reportedly including George Bush and Henry Kissinger) at the Bohemian Grove. The film includes footage of attendees dressed in robes and burning an effigy at the foot of a giant stone owl. Jones believes that the ceremony is related to occult secret societies. After the event, Ronson meets comedy actor and fellow attendee Harry Shearer who describes the event as a glorified fraternity party. Shearer largely dismisses Jones's dramatic retelling of the gathering and notes that the music is supplied by the Symphony Orchestra of San Francisco.

Guest Stars

Name: Kelly Rebecca Nichols

Character: Self – Alex's Girlfriend (as Violet Nichols)

Department: Production

Name: Mary Moore

Character: Self – Bohemian Grove Action Network

Department: Acting

Name: Rick

Character: Self – Lawyer

Department: Acting

Name: Mike Hanson

Character: Self – Alex's Camera Man

Department: Camera

Name: Harry Shearer

Character: Self – Comedian

Department: Acting

Name: David Icke

Character: Self – Conspiracy Investigator

Department: Acting

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Episode: 5

The Bilderberg Group

Air Date:27/05/2001

Ronson teams up with reporter James P. Tucker Jr., who has been investigating the Bilderberg Group, an annual invitation-only conference, for over thirty years. According to Tucker, around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in business, academic, or political circles, meet annually in secret. The duo encounters unwelcoming suited security men and a car chase. Ronson also interviews Group founder Denis Healey.

Guest Stars

Name: Gail Gans

Character: Self – Anti-Defamation League

Department: Acting

Name: Jack McLamb

Character: Self – Police Against the New World Order

Department: Acting

Name: David Icke

Character: Self – Conspiracy Investigator

Department: Acting

Name: Jim Tucker

Character: Self – Conspiracy Investigator

Department: Acting

Name: Andrew St. George

Character: Self – Editor, The Spotlight

Department: Acting

Name: Mike Piper

Character: Self – Reporter, The Spotlight

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Nixon

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: Margaret Thatcher

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Luckman

Character: Self – Editor, The Weekly News

Department: Acting

Name: Frederico Castro e Lemos

Character: Self – Reporter, The Weekly News

Department: Acting

Name: David Barker

Character: Self – Camera Man

Department: Editing

Name: Brendan de Beer

Character: Self – Photographer, The Weekly News

Department: Acting

Name: Martin Taylor

Character: Self – Secretary General, Bilderberg Group

Department: Acting

Name: Denis Healey

Character: Self – Founder Member, Bilderberg Group

Department: Acting

Name: David Rockefeller

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: Henry Kissinger

Character: Self (archive footage)

Department: Acting

Name: David Owen

Character: Self – Bilderberg Member 1982

Department: Acting

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