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- Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of international scholars paint a new portrait of the world of piracy in the Indian Ocean.
- In the night of April 15, 2019, Notre-Dame de Paris was burning at her very heart. 'Saving Notre-Dame' captures unique human stories facing extreme situations and bears witness to the progress and challenges of this once in a life mission.
- April 15, 1874, boulevard des Capucines, Paris. In the studio of their friend, the photographer Nadar, some thirty young painters were preparing to present over one hundred and fifty of their works to the public.
- The large southern islands, Shikoku, Kyushu and Okinawa, with their relaxed atmosphere, are the cradle of Japanese spirituality. Journey between sea and sky to discover the mystical, wild islands of the South and the face of a secret Japan.
- The imposing basilica of the Sagrada Família, a major work by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), begun in 1882 and never completed, overlooks the city of Barcelona and has become one of its symbols. Its verticality, its organic and curved forms and the brightly colored mosaics that adorn the tops of its towers make it unique. In addition to its aesthetics, this expiatory temple is the product of technical innovations such as the chain arches designed to absorb the load of the immense building without buttresses or the inclined, tree-like columns that follow the trajectory of the building's forces. This complex geometry makes the task of the engineer's heirs all the more difficult as they only have a few original plans and models.
- An old aztec statue brought back from Mexico to France by a transvestite and an acrobat suddenly releases El Vibro, a.k.a. Vibroboy, a superhero endowed with a phallic driller...
- What is the story behind the world famous Tussaud's wax museums? Watch the epic tale of the rise of Marie Tussaud, a female artist and entrepreneur who survived a revolution and then took her business acumen to England to establish an entertainment empire.
- In 1990, in the gorges of Aveyron, a teenager passionate about speleology, Bruno Kowalczewski, discovered a cave near the village of Bruniquel. After having dug for three years to make a passage from a tiny hole, it emerges 350 meters from the entrance, into a spacious cavity containing an archaeological treasure. On the ground, hundreds of shattered stalagmites were arranged in circles by Neanderthals, as evidenced by a carbon-14 dating to at least 47,000 years ago. What significance do these limestone rings have? From when do they date precisely? For fear of damaging the remains, excavations were stopped at the end of the 1990s, leaving these questions unanswered. They resume today.
- A complex and complicated artist, Georges Remi created one of the most famous characters in the world, Tintin, for young readers. With exceptional access to the archives of Studios Hergé and Moulinsart, this program looks at Remi's life and the way he changed the art of comic strips.
- With exclusive access granted over 10 months of excavation, the film reveals for the first time the unexplored parts of the city of Pompeii and captures the major findings which have emerged in the last 70 years of research and a 2018 dig.
- A hero of all our childhoods, Tintin is without doubt one of the 20th century's greatest travelers. An intrepid, bighearted adventurer who crisscrossed the world, introducing eager readers to exciting and exotic destinations. Peru, Egypt, India, Scotland, Morocco, Tibet, etc., an endless series of globe-trotting voyages. Braver than James Bond, more intrepid than Indiana Jones, more curious than Sherlock Holmes, smarter than Clark Kent, Tintin is a timeless, universal hero. A legend, a myth, who has inspired and fascinated whole generations of readers.
- A giant man-eater swims the banks of Lake Tanganyika. It is the biggest crocodile ever documented. Its gigantic size and thick skin make it invulnerable to gun shot. The only solution is to capture it alive.
- This is the untold story of a Nazi Germany project which secretly gave birth to Aryan children as far as France. In these maternity hospitals for the rich called the 'Lebensborn', the Nazis raised 'perfect' children born of progenitors from the SS and women with well defined racial grounds. This plan gave birth to thousands of children who were called 'Hitler's children'. They were supposed to lead the world one day. It wasn't until 30 years later that the existence of one of these centers in France was discovered. For the very first time, the children born in the 'Lebensborn' in Lamorlaye find out about their existence and disclose one the most frightening plans of History, as well as the dark secret of their origins.
- The town and Abbey of the Mont Saint-Michel built on a tiny rocky tidal island overlooking the Bay has captured the imagination of millions of visitors. The settlement on the island dates back to the 8th Century. The maze-like constructions overlapping one another unfold over centuries.
- In this 3-part mini-series, viewers join world experts as they seek out the sounds produced by underwater animals, birds and other animals or insects living on land. Featuring three natural environments: sea, sky, and land.
- The Arctic's changing seasons and the impact on the region's flora and fauna is studied in this nature documentary.
- According to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant containing the tablets of the Law, the Ten Commandments dictated by Yahweh to Moses, accompanied the Hebrew people on their conquest of the Promised Land. After the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians in 587 BC, the sacred chest disappeared forever. Since then, the mythical Ark, with its mysterious powers, has never ceased to fire the imagination of mankind and the covetousness of treasure seekers. But did it ever exist? By combining skills and innovative technologies, and by comparing the field with biblical texts, researchers are going to make some edifying discoveries.
- The Great Pyramids are the only wonder of the ancient world that still stand today, the greatest of which is the pyramid of Khufu. Many theories have been offered to explain its construction, but none as convincing or unique as this one.
- The Scythians, skilled horsemen and nomadic conquerors, built a feared Empire in the vast Eurasian steppe between the 9th and 2rd century B.C. The only remaining traces of this people are their graves: the Kourganes.
- A historian attempts to recapture an ancient world and unveil the secrets hidden in ancient Egypt in this documentary.
- Minesweepers, fishermen, volcanologists, bouncers or tornado hunters, dangerous jobs are as varied as they are impressive. What pushes these men and women to trade their reassuring briefcase for jobs where the slightest mistake could have dire consequences? Aren't they afraid of anything? What are their families' worries or fears? And above all, what makes their work so exciting and worth all the risks? By exploring the daily lives of people with dangerous jobs, the series 24 heures : danger. promises to keep you on the edge of your seat. Each episode presents two fascinating and lively individuals whose professional lives are far from routine or mundane. United by a common theme, they confront danger or put their lives at risk on a daily basis.
- Documentary about the 1759 battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec, part of the Seven Years War between Britain and France. Both leaders, Wolfe and Montcalme died in this battle, which decided control over what would become Canada.
- From Iberia to China and Japan, from Central and Eastern Europe to Portugal and India, 'Timeless Treasures' is a 8-part mini-series which revisits the development and history of four significant cultural regions.
- A series about the various innovations to aide humanities' demand for speed in daily life.
- Five years ago, in 2016, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg flew around the world without fuel, thanks to the Sun's energy alone, aboard the Solar Impulse 2 solar plane. For its 5th anniversary, this film retraces this exceptional trip.
- A documentary about Picasso, which looks at the documenting and compiling of an inventory of his work after his death. It shows a huge range of wonderful drawings and paintings and looks inside the properties which he owned. It also chronicles the influence of the many women who were important to him during his long life. Some were wives, some mistresses, some friends. The documentary is narrated by several of his children and grandchildren and friends and uses contemporary film.
- Following two passionate archaeologists, Giuseppe Orefici and Egle Barone-Visigalli, this documentary tries to solve the enigma of a little-known Pre-Columbian civilization: the Nasca.
- In 1613, a samurai feudal lord, Masamune Date delegated a Japanese Embassy to sail off to Europe to negotiate with the Pope and the King of Spain the opening of a new sea route. Led by the samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga and the Franciscan monk Luis Sotelo, this expedition spent seven years traveling one third of the globe before reaching their final destination. Watch their epic adventures unfold from Japan across Mexico, all the way to Seville and the Vatican. Find out about this forgotten chapter of History, revealing the twist and turns of this extraordinary Japanese expedition to the Western World. And discover the fate and legacy of these men caught up in the first ages of globalization as they faced secret ambitions, religious and political tensions.
- Two young Nicaraguan children, Saslaya and her mute brother Dario, must travel to Costa Rica to find their long-lost mother.
- A dazzling portrait of the filmmaker's autistic daughter, Penelope.
- Takes you behind-the-scenes of the first solar-fueled flight around the world in Swiss airplane Solar Impulse in which two courageous pilots take turns battling nature, their own crew, and sometimes logic itself, to achieve the impossible.
- Modern techniques and archaeology are able to shed new light on various times and key conflicts in history through the vestiges newly unearthed, most recent archaeological findings and first-hand accounts of the people who lived then.
- An expedition to the Mont-Blanc, one of the highest peaks of the World, offers a real awareness of the increasing fragility of the best preserved places far from our daily life.
- The crazy rise and fall of Jacques Tati, comedy genius, actor, director and athlete of laughter. Or how the inventor of the mythical Mr. Hulot made France laugh, then the world, flying from success to success, rising higher and higher, until he came a little too close to the sun.
- Today, more than half the world's population lives in cities. These large, sprawling melting pots expose a society's identity and culture for all to see. What makes these gigantic urban centres go round? Why do millions of people dream of living in them? What give these megacities their soul? These are the questions that Alexandra Leroux will ask in her exploration of the world's megalopolises.
- This documentary offers to investigate the new digital battlefield and our ever growing dependence on computers and the Internet, a paradise land for hackers and criminals.
- TV Mini SeriesA three-part documentary that tells the ancient history of China.
- Covers Japan as the land of five elements. Godai are the five elements in Japanese Buddhist thought of earth (chi), water (sui), fire (ka), wind (fu), and void (ku), a concept related to Buddhist Mahabhuta, coming over China from India.
- This Franco-Swiss film tells the tale of the first ever solar flight around the world as well as the stories of our pilots and co-founders Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg within the pioneering adventure.
- From the Celtic oppidum to the city's Romanization under the Empire, this film takes the viewer into the history of the founding of Nemausus (now Nîmes, in the Gard Dept., Southern France) through the fate of a family, from 55 BC to 90 AD.
- Greek historian Harry Tzalas explores the bottom of the Bay of Alexandria in tandem with the team of archaeologist Jean-Yves Empereur, to uncover the unparalleled history of the city founded by Alexander the Great, until Cleopatra's reign.
- Will it one day be possible to fly aboard a plane, day and night, and to travel round the world with zero pollution? Today, this is not just some crazy project, but a huge human, aeronautical and technological challenge that none believed in - a challenge taken up by famous 'scientific adventurer' Bertrand Piccard together with André Borschberg, pilot and project CEO, and their team: constructing and flying, for 26 hours, an airplane that functions uniquely with solar energy. Called Solar Impulse, the airplane is the size of an Airbus A380 and the weight of a car. Its wings, 64 meters wide, are covered with a 'skin' of solar cells. It can transport a pilot and aims to do a non-stop day-night-day sequence. This incredible story takes us back ten years, to when Bertrand Piccard lands in Egypt after his round-the-world trip in a balloon, and the first notions of a solar plane are outlined, continuing up to André Borschberg's presentation of the HBSIA prototype in June 2009. During the 26-hour flight, we discover, year by year, the extraordinary development of the Solar Impulse adventure.