This is a "soft" introduction, so to speak. With hypnotic images and music, director Reggio takes you on a dazzling tour of the human world, from packed urban centres to third world slums...

And here's a nice story of Africa, 30 years after the Mondo Cane directors predicted its "downfall". Showing the inextricable connections between the Western "civilization" and its African neo-colonies with a convincing story about... the great lake where life purportedly originated, its fish, Western weapons and old Ukrainian aircraft...

Finally: before you start thinking that only in the "developing world" humans have become masters in practicing atrocities, here are 9 1/2 hours of testimonies about the most neatly organized, rational, even lawful killing machine in recent history: the German concentration camps. But as Woody Allen put it, holocausts happen every day, everywhere... only in smaller portions.