28th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
5 MARCH → 15 MARCH 2026
Segments: Planet in Peril

Γαλλία-Καναδάς 2009 87 Digibeta Color
Anthrax War is an investigative documentary about the 2001 US anthrax attacks, dead scientists and the dark secrets of germ war research. Filmmaker Bob Coen probes troubling questions still surrounding the FBI’s investigation of the 21st Century’s first act of biological terrorism. The search for answers takes him from secret labs in the United States to the United Kingdom, then to the edge of Siberia and Southern Africa. He penetrates what he comes to call the “biological warfare mafia” and uncovers the development of terrifying new weapons – genetically mutated germs, some with the ability to target specific ethnic groups. He also discovers that since the anthrax attacks germ war research has become big business and that a growing number of scientists working in this underworld are dying under mysterious circumstances.