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Do bear in mind the majority of "shocking" footage to be found on the Internet is fabrication.
There are a number of familiar scenes to be found on some of the usual notorious sites that are from genuine stock footage (various third-world executions and Asian dead bodies for example), but most of the more outrageous and disagreeable "tortures", "killings" and "accidents" are in fact mock-ups.
The digitized computer medium makes these fakes easier to produce than on video, where inconsistencies between frames are more obvious and are less likely to fool.
Probably controversially, the recent widely publicized beheadings in Iraq are recreated for the camera rather than the genuine authentic acts they are supposed to be. Although extremely distasteful to watch, once one is over the initial revulsion every case examined shows blatant evidence of technical tampering and - in some cases - the production values of these scenes are so bad they should not fool a five-year-old into believing they are real.
The hostages are still dead, of course.
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