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- Eva is a paraplegic. On her birthday, her friend Sophie gives her a strange Advent calendar. It's not the traditional treats you find when you open each drawer, but quirky gifts that are scary and get bloodier.
- -Manipulating research to delay the progress of knowledge on certain subjects is part of the strategy of a growing number of industrialists. Researchers set out to dismantle the mechanisms behind this phenomenon, which is gaining ground.
- In 1812 Napoleon gathers the largest army of all times, of about 600.000 men from 24 controlled countries to invade Russia. 172 day later they will have to withdraw, 400.000 soldiers either killed or captured. Why dis this happen?
- They grew up under the Nazi regime. They pledged to give their lives for Hitler. They were fanatics who would not be stopped. They were the 20,000 teenagers who made up the 12th SS Panzer Division. Unleashed in France to halt the Allied invasion, they would sow terror and destruction in their wake. Historical colorized archives and a handful of survivors tell us this story.
- Explore the world from the highest peaks of Africa to the skyscrapers of New York City. Each documentary draws an accurate portrait of each country, city, and island, far from postcard clichés and tourist attractions. Educational as well as informative, Discovering the World was filmed in HD and contains high quality aerial cinematography. Viewers will enjoy learning about the everyday life, history, geography, culture, and economy of each country.
- At 81, Al Pacino celebrates a half-century career. In the 1940s, the little Italian-American from the South Bronx imitates in front of a mirror the stars he discovers on the big screen, before the revelation of the theater in a room of his neighborhood. A fan of Marlon Brando, the teenager took on a series of odd jobs before enrolling in the Actors Studio of his future mentor Lee Strasberg. Magnetic face and contained violence, Al Pacino alone embodies the New York of vertigo and fury of the 1970s, as evidenced by "Panic in Needle Park", the film by Jerry Schatzberg (1971), which reveals him as an incandescent junkie. The following year, Coppola installed him in the firmament as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather". In this portrait, Jean-Baptiste Péretié explores the New York of the 1970s in the footsteps of the star.
- Recreations, interviews and restored archival footage tell the story of NASA's Apollo program.
- In the Indian Himalayas, two best friends have to leave their family to fulfill their destiny as women.
- The Messenger is an artful investigation into the causes of songbird mass depletion and the people working to turn the tide. This visually thrilling film reveals how the issues facing birds also pose daunting implications for our planet.
- Hjalmar Schacht is a largely forgotten figure. And yet, Hitler's rise to power depended on him. He was the Banker of the Third Reich, but paradoxically, was never a member of the Nazi party, despite being one of its pillars.
- Never before has India been so powerful on the international scene. Never before has "the world's largest democracy," according to an ever-present cliché, implemented a policy as openly nationalistic, pro-religion (in this case Hinduism) and authoritarian as that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of the BJP, the Indian People's Party. Triumphantly re-elected in May 2019, after succeeding the sixty-year rule of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in 2014, he has methodically built up a power that he is constantly strengthening, with a double revenge to take on history: to restore what he presents as the original purity of India before the Mughal and British invasions, and to give it a central place in the international order. According to him, "the 21st century will be the century of India".
- Join a team of tireless adventurers and experienced divers on two polar expeditions to explore the hidden faces of the Arctic and the cold depths of Greenland's fjords. They will be surrounded by a multidisciplinary team of experts made up of sailors, scientists, photographers, researchers, and doctors. Immerse yourself into the unknown in this is a fabulous human and scientific adventure.
- Behind the iconic Eiffel Tower lies the story of an incredible challenge to erect the first thousand-foot tower, pitting Gustave Eiffel against now forgotten rivals, iron vs stone, engineers vs architects, and modernists vs classicists.
- Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
- How do sharks, sperm whales, dolphins have sex? The most spectacular and difficult scenes to film under the sea.
- An interstellar adventure in search of an exoplanet that supports complex life. We ask the greatest minds in the world: How do we get there?
- Olivier Weber took his camera around the world, to the compartments and wagons of trains. A train is a unique starting point to discover a country, meet the people, enjoy the stories, and the daily life of those met along the way.
- It took less than 10 years for Hitler to set up the concentration camps, many of which became centers for mass killing. As research and archaeological exploration continue, this documentary reveals the established historiographical elements to explain how a system of concentrating populations so quickly became the rationalized apparatus of genocide.
- From spring 1941 to summer 1942, nearly 80,000 Jews were rounded up in France and deported. Almost all will die in concentration or extermination camps. Without the assistance of the French authorities and police, these operations meticulously prepared by the Nazis would never have existed. Thanks to realistic evocative scenes, archives and photographs for some unpublished, this documentary plunges into the last elements revealed by historical research to make us live, from the inside, these waves of massive and violent arrests.
- Explore the Earth and the most beautiful natural paradises in the world. These stunning locales are preserved thanks to the dedication of local populations. Meet the inhabitants of these lands who have developed small businesses to welcome visitors in their environment, and helped create a new form of travel: sustainable tourism. Shot in stunning high definition, Green Paradise tells the stories of these magical places, the inhabitants who cherish the land, and those visitors who come to experience its splendors.
- On June 6, 1968, Robert F. KENNEDY, a staunch opponent of racial discrimination, supporter of the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods and advocate of social change in America, was assassinated. With him, a whole section of the American dream collapsed. From the day of President Kennedy's assassination to the death of his brother Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel almost five years later, this film looks back at the journey of this statesman and his fight for a fairer world. Four years during which Bobby Kennedy will fly on his own wings in politics, four years that will leave an indelible mark on American politics, four years full of hope, but ending with a bitter disillusionment. Through unique archives, discover a new portrait of this Kennedy that everyone called "Bobby".
- The incredible story of two small remote controlled rovers sent by the Soviets to the moon in the 1970's.
- Since the most recent and historic flooding tragedies in Southeast Asia (in 2004 and 2011), researchers around the world are mobilized to study the complex mechanics of tsunamis.
- World War Il in Europe ended on the 8th of May 1945. Hitler is dead. Allied armies have occupied Germany. The death camps have been liberated. But, for the Jews of Europe, the suffering, the dying, and the grief continues, and still continues to this very day.
- On 18 June 1940, Charles de Gaulle's appeal was heard as far as the depths of the oceans. It is here that one of the War's most important resistance movements came into being: The Maquisards de la Mer. Heading it up was the submarine "Rubis". This film gives a voice to the forgotten members of the Resistance by means of unpublished testimonies and rare texts written by the Rubis' crew members.
- Twenty-five-year-old Tisno is one of the youngest Indonesian animal wildlife/reserve keepers. A qualified botanist, he lives among the animals he protects, on the island of Andelum, one of the most fabulous Indonesian reserves.
- Documentary that offers fresh insights into the Korean War, a conflict that, despite the 1953 armistice, has never officially ended.
- In the coldest of winter, in the mountains of Zanskar, the Buddhist monks of Phuktal leave their monastery
- This documentary tells the story of how the Nazis stormed the fortress of law, how they gradually subjugated the judiciary and the legal system in order to assert the supremacy of the "people's community" over individual rights. This story is told through four singular destinies: Johann Reichhart, the Bavarian executioner and world record-holder for judicial executions; Lilo Gloeden, a committed woman; Werner Best, a Nazi jurist; and Hans Litten, a democratic lawyer. From 1933 to 1945, during the twelve years of the Nazi era, Hitler's courts handed down some 16,000 death sentences on their own soil. 30,000 more with the military tribunals.
- In the Zagros Mountains, in southwestern Iran, a teacher accompanies a family of nomadic herdsmen, the Bakthyaris, on their spring transhumance. For three weeks, he walks with them, and in the evenings, he gives the children lessons. His mission is to give them a basic education, which is essential if they want to find a job in the city where they hope to settle.
- Published posthumously in 1796, Diderot's novel, an astonishingly modern feminist indictment, caused the same uproar in France in the 1960s, when Jacques Rivette decided to adapt it, as it had in Restoration France one hundred and fifty years earlier.
- The documentary collection "Sacred Monuments" explores in four 90-minute installments the most beautiful religious buildings in the world to tell the story of how man's relationship to religion has evolved.
- Drawing on a life's work defined by controversial and ground-breaking ideas, the world's greatest architect has inaugurated his first Australian building - and debate still rages over whether it is eyesore or icon. Our film follows the drama as Gehry'Äôs vision for this commission is realized.
- TV Series
- What will become of the billions of information gathered on the hard disks, CD or DVD? Is our civilization without a perennial support still capable of producing memory?
- Deep down at the bottom of the ocean lies the mysterious world of the abyss. In the midst of boiling, toxic geysers, a rich ecosystem flourishes. This miracle is possible thanks to bacteria, micro-organisms crucial to all living beings. How can bacteria survive in such extreme conditions?.
- The world knows Andy Warhol's famous paintings of Campbell Soups or his portraits of Marilyn Monroe. His look, his face, like a signature, made him an artist-star. Yet few know the man behind the artist. Let's go behind the scenes.
- TV Mini SeriesFaraway, isolated regions, home to millions of cultures, islands invite us to reconnect with our roots, to question our relationship with our territories, our environment and our beliefs. Special repositories of an intangible heritage, their identity can be challenged in a world in full mutation, in a hurry to evolve towards greater efficiency and virtuality. How do island peoples, deeply attached to their roots, associate tradition and modernity? From the Caribbean (Haiti) to the Indian Ocean (Madagascar) to the Atlantic Ocean (Newfoundland), the inhabitants of these territories are trying to find their place in a changing world. Through the prism of art and creation, each episode of this series lets us discover an island, its history, its current challenges and its people, resolutely turned towards the future.