
The Turning Point
The Bilderberg Group began in 1954, when Polish adviser Jozef Retinger and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands gathered European and American politicians, bankers, and executives at the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek for an off-the-record conference. Press For Truth's Dan Dicks and his crew pick up the story nearly sixty years later at the group's 60th meeting, held in Chantilly, Virginia from May 31 to June 3, 2012, where attendees operate under Chatham House Rules that forbid repeating what is said inside. The film traces the group's membership roll, including the Rothschild banking family, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and Queen Beatrix, and argues that six decades of closed-door sessions have shaped global economic and political decisions away from public view. Archival photos, news clips, and on-the-ground footage of journalists and protesters outside the Chantilly hotel gates make up most of the visual record, since no cameras are allowed inside. The film's own title names its thesis: that independent media and internet reporting have finally broken the group's decades-long media blackout.