Marie-Monique Robin has received 20 awards for her films since her directing debut in 1989, including the Laurier du Sénat, FIGRA’s Best Investigative Documentary Award, LASA’s Award of Merit, the Cairo Cinema Festival Critics’ Award for Death Squads: The French School, and the Rachel Carson Prize for her 2009 exposé The World According to Monsanto. Her book The Photos of the Century: 100 Historic Moments has more than 700,000 copies in print in seven languages.