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- 2006– 1h 30m9.2 (6)TV EpisodeThere is a man who have been dedicated obstinately his life for over 20 years to an universal mission: he looks, finds, archives and plays the music that it has been composed in concentration camps during the Second World War. He is Italian and his name is Francesco Lotoro. His passionate research is now a movie, a journey through time that wants to fight the oblivion and to preserve the memories of men and women whom found their way against destruction through out their music.
- 2006– 1h 8m8.8 (19)TV EpisodeBorn in Ukraine in 2008 in the wake of the "Orange Revolution", the feminist movement Femen fights for democracy, freedom of the press, women's rights, and against corruption, prostitution, sexism, racism, poverty and religions. Her activists quickly caught the attention of the media by shocking actions carried bare toes, the body covered with slogans. In 2012, at the creation of Femen France, Caroline Fourest followed their actions. They notably affirmed their support for "Marriage for All" by protesting on November 18, 2012, during the demonstration organized by the Civitas Institute against the bill, provoking sharp clashes.
- Fifty years ago, overcoming obstacles and prejudices, a handful of black creators proudly claiming the name of "Nègres" managed to bring together in the same spirit many artists and writers from all the black lands of the globe. In September 1956, the first Congress of Black Writers and Artists took place at the Sorbonne. In the gallery Alioune Diop, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, Richard Wright. In the room, Claude Lévi-Strauss, René Depestre, Édouard Glissant, James Baldwin. Picasso signs the poster for the event. This film tells how and why such an event could see the light of day, how and why the authorities of the time - from France of the Fourth Republic to America and the USSR - did everything to disrupt this congress, to denigrate its conclusions, to stifle its scope. By its importance, such an event has left us its share of images, documents, interviews and photographs, even if history has conscientiously concealed them in the replicas of its memory. This film reconstructs the puzzle. The last participants in these three days, still alive, brought their testimonies and these interviews constituting the very basis of the story.
- In June 1941, the German army invades the USSR. Following behind are the Einsatzgruppen, 3000 men grouped into four "intervention groups" each given a designated geographical region, sent to exterminate Jews and enemies of the Reich.
- Apparently am extremely 'tough love' if not military styled disciplinary school, accused of torture and violence towards the wayward youth attending. Many accusations of abuse, torture and neglect have brought forth several law suits on the institution. Check out this fact based docudrama.
- 2006–7.9 (12)TV EpisodeThe documentary chronicles the most significant man-made ecological disasters since 1945 and explores the evolution of ecological awareness through archival footage and interviews with various experts.
- Every year, 600 to 800 French farmers end their lives, because they have debts and no longer see a way out. Christian Bergeon was one of them: in 1999 he committed suicide, 45 years of age. His son Edouard made a documentary about the family trauma and followed Sébastien Itard, an equally affected farmer. This confrontational film, at the same time homage, mourning and prosecution, breaks the rural silence about an unprecedented social drama. During the 1,5 year recording period, Itard committed a suicide attempt, which underlines the urgency of the documentery
- In 1974, Romain Gary invented a writer, Emile Ajar who, the following year, with "La Vie devant soi", won the Prix Goncourt. A prize that can only be received once and that Gary had already obtained with "Les Racines du ciel". Why did he keep it a secret? The answer to this question can be found in the past, in Romain Gary's childhood in Vilnius, where he was born and grew up, between a mother too demanding and a father too absent. In the manner of a novel, Philippe Kohly creates a portrait of this complex personality. He has notably met some of Gary's close friends, as well as Bernard Pivot.
- The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier. The photos were taken at the end of May or beginning of June 1944, either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task was to take ID photos and fingerprints of the inmates (not of the Jews who were sent directly to the gas chambers). The photos show the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia. Many of them came from the Berehovo Ghetto, which itself was a collecting point for Jews from several other small towns. Early summer 1944 was the apex of the deportation of Hungarian Jewry. For this purpose a special rail line was extended from the railway station outside the camp to a ramp inside Auschwitz. Many of the photos in the album were taken on the ramp. The Jews then went through a selection process, carried out by SS doctors and wardens. Those considered fit for work were sent into the camp, where they were registered, deloused and distributed to the barracks. The rest were sent to the gas chambers. They were gassed under the guise of a harmless shower, their bodies were cremated and the ashes were strewn in a nearby swamp. The Nazis not only ruthlessly exploited the labor of those they did not kill immediately, they also looted the belongings the Jews brought with them. Even gold fillings were extracted from the mouths of the dead by a special detachment of inmates. The personal effects the Jews brought with them were sorted by inmates and stored in an area referred to by the inmates as "Canada": the ultimate land of plenty. The photos in the album show the entire process except for the killing itself. The purpose of the album is unclear. It was not intended for propaganda purposes, nor does it have any obvious personal use. One assumes that it was prepared as an official reference for a higher authority, as were photo albums from other concentration camps. Lilly never hid the album and news of its existence was published many times. She was even called to present it as testimony at the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt during the 1960s. She kept it all the years until the famous Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld visited her in 1980, and convinced her to donate the album to Yad Vashem. In 1994 the album was restored in Yad Vashem's conservation laboratory and information on each one of the photos was typed into the computerized databank of the archive. The staff of the archive was able to compare and match the pictures with aerial photos taken by the US Army Air Force on several occasions in 1944-45. In 1999 the entire album was scanned with the highest quality digital equipment. There are 56 pages and 193 photos in the album. Some of the original pictures, presumably those given by Lilly to survivors who had identified relatives in the photographs, are missing. One of these pictures was recently donated to Yad Vashem.
- Technological progress today is allowing mankind to conceive of a radically 'improved' human being, a 'Human version 2.0', modeling his own species according to his wishes. In laboratories all over the world, a new kind of individual, partially re-engineered, is not only in the process of being dreamed up and tested, but manufactured. Some scientists are betting that Homo Sapiens (that is to say, us!) will soon be considered a charming but outdated version of mankind. It is time, they say, to upgrade to Homo Technologicus. This film is an in-depth yet very accessible investigation where science, philosophy and sociology collide, at a crossroads that is in equal measure exciting, promising and frightening!
- Students learn how to be eloquent.
- The world's most consumed fruit has an untold story. The industrialization of the humble tomato preceded the globalized economy that was to follow. It is now as much of a commodity as wheat, rice, or petrol. The tomato's ability to create strongly identifiable products, such as ketchup, pizza sauce, soups, sauces, drinks or frozen dishes is unbeatable. As early as 1897, ten years before Ford started to mass produce cars, Heinz was already converting tomatoes into standardized cans of puree. They were one of the first companies to understand the power of branding. They banned unions, imposed uniform standards of production and established genetic laboratories that ensured identical tomato plantations all around the world. Today, wherever you are in the world, you can eat the same tomatoes. This film will trace the journey of tomato paste from Africa, Italy, China and America to show the consequences of this global business.
- Deborah, 25, and M, 27, are living in bodies that Western medicine - and often society - deems taboo. Like an estimated 1.7 percent of people, they were born with variations in their sex characteristics that were different from classical understandings of male or female. For M, growing up intersex has also meant grappling with the fact that she underwent medically unnecessary surgeries to "normalize" her body as a very young child. But when M finds Deborah online, she is introduced to new voices, language, and representations that allow her to expand her understanding of who she is beyond medical terms. This beautifully crafted, poetic documentary joins brave young people as they seek to reappropriate their bodies and explore their identities, revealing both the limits of binary visions of sex and gender, and the irreversible physical and psychological impact of non-consensual surgeries on intersex infants.
- 2006– 52m7.2 (16)TV EpisodeHow can there still exist myths around female sexuality? How can the mention of this erogenous zone provoke argument and salacious laughter? How can a simple erogenous zone denominated as the "G-Spot" be known to all yet almost no-one knows its location or its physiology? G-spotting investigates the fascinating world of scientific sexology.
- 2006– 52m7.2 (63)TV Episode
- Grynzpan is a young Jew who kills, in desperation, a German diplomat in Paris. This minor event is used by the third Reich to inspire the "Kristallnacht".
- This historical documentary follows the events of the monumental Adolf Eichmann trial: a turning point in the collective memory of the Holocaust.
- 2006– 1h 30m6.8 (11)TV Episode
- On May 2, 1945, Soviets take control over the Fuhrerbunker. On May 5th, they find bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun buried in the garden near the bunker. Investigation of Hitler's death was kept secret until now.
- 2006– 52m6.4 (12)TV Episode
- 2006– 1h 6m6.4 (9)TV Episode
- 2006– 1h 21m6.3 (15)TV EpisodeIn 1999, 29-year-old Sean Sellers is executed in Oklahoma despite protests around the world. Leading up to the execution, filmmaker David André filmed Sellers on death row. During Sellers' final clemency hearing - when the young man begged for his life - André met the families of Sellers' victims, who were demanding his execution. Haunted by the memory of this story, André returns to Oklahoma 10 years after Sellers' death to hunt down the protagonists and look for an answer to one question: is the death sentence really a remedy or does it act like a poison on those who took part?
- 2006– 1h 50m6.3 (32)TV Episode
- Thanks to the journey of its characters and by observing their daily lives, "The new key to the fields" answers essential questions: is the rapid disintegration of the countryside real, inexorable? Is this rural world a laboratory for inventing a new alternative way of life to the problems of the city? The new Clé des Champs offers an immersion in Puisaye. A territory that well represents the fabric that makes France. A territory where clichés about rurality are gradually covered by a different reality, often innovative and sometimes disturbing. Because it is undoubtedly in the countryside that things have changed the most in 20 years, in depth, but without a taste for the spectacular. Women, for example, have become major players in local life, often occupying positions of political responsibility. A commitment that is striking and particularly visible in the villages where energies swarm and come together to move the lines. A universe where personal commitment expresses the will to face challenges in order to solve them.
- The Fessenheim nuclear power plant will stop all activity in 2020 with the shutdown of the first reactor in February and the second in June. The ultramodern flagship of nuclear energy when it was built in 1977, became a symbol of danger. But the oldest of French nuclear power plants employs 850 employees from EDF and 350 employees from subcontracting companies. It also ensures the municipality of Fessenheim, a prosperity out of the ordinary. For forty years, the inhabitants of the village oppose a silent reserve in the face of fiery national polemics. From the mayor Claude to the union leader Jean-Luc, to the concierge Jennifer and the environmental activist Gabriel, all are worried about their future, fearing to be abandoned. Before the time of reconversion, the negotiations remain difficult between the commune and the french State.
- This documentary looks back at the industrial history of Fos-Sur-Mer and gives a voice to its inhabitants. This area has 15 SEVESO classified sites. The cancer mortality rate is twice as high as in the rest of the country.
- In this graceful and cautious documentary, three mothers and a father discuss the loss of their child.
- At the shower-baths in Paris, homeless women put down their suitcases for a shower and a coffee break. They take time for themselves, to do their laundry, to make themselves beautiful. But it is also a place to relax, chat, laugh and find psychological support. Emilie or Myriam are among the women who come here to meet a social worker to follow up on their steps to receive care. Claire Lajeunie, the director of this documentary, also proposes an immersion with the ASF - Association for the Development and Health of Women - and a discovery of the Halte Femmes, a place that will open at the end of 2018.
- Flies around the Mediterranean Sea to explore the most diverse area in the world with over 427 million inhabitants living in 24 countries within three continents.
- 2006–TV Episode
- 2006–TV EpisodeThis is the story of forty-four high school students from Seine-Saint-Denis, one of the roughest suburbs of Paris. Without any previous acting experience, they work hard to perform a contemporary play called 'September 11, 2001'.
- After "Nos Mères Nos Daronnes" and "On nous appelait beurettes", the third part "Meufs de (la) cité" will complete this new work of analysis of the feminine history of North African immigration but also of our neighborhoods. This opus proposes to understand how this third generation continues its fight for freedom and equality, inherited from their grandmothers and mothers, and takes up the current challenge, that of fraternity and living together.
- French Guiana, where writer and traveller Sylvain Tesson is with the 3rd infantry regiment of the French Foreign Legion. Living alongside the legionnaires, he discovers a wilderness, the Amazon Forest, and the stories of those ready to give up their own name for the right to wear the white kepi.
- Increasingly strong and addictive, cannabis today is completely different from that consumed twenty years ago. Reduced concentration and IQ, dropping out of school, emotional solitude, and psychotic behaviour: the effects of "rolling-up" for French teenagers has become a major public health problem.
- 2006– 1h 20mTV Episode
- Spring, 1945. In the midst of the war, three civilian women chronicle the battle of Berlin in their diaries. They write under dramatic circumstances, including repeated rapes perpetrated by the conquering forces.
- Despite being a French department since 2011, Mayotte continues to struggle to find a healthcare and judicial solution for the thousands of children whose parents, originally from other Comoros islands, have been deported. Not being orphans they can't be adopted. Often organised into gangs they mug, steal, take drugs.
- The attack on Pearl Harbor gave General de Gaulle and his movement the legitimacy they so lacked in their early days. It was in Oceania, between Tahiti, Bora-Bora, Nouméa and the New Hebrides, that Free France would become a territorial reality for the first time, and that Charles de Gaulle would be officially recognized as its leader by the Americans. It was on these islands that the British and Americans would rely to halt the Japanese advance. Historians and archive images eloquently evoke this little-known page of the Second World War, decisive for France.
- A court of law is also the stage of a theatre where everyone plays their part. Despite a world that separates them, the young and motivated lawyers of the Ruben law firm have something in common with their clients, who often come from working-class neighborhoods. Drill, role-play and even provocation, they use all means to give those they defend the best chances in court.
- The director learns she has breast cancer. Her life is turned upside down. Her journey through the medical world, part of an artistic and personal quest, achieves unprecedented intimacy with the disease.
- 2006– 1h 11mTV Episode
- 2006– 1h 11mTV Episode
- 2006– 53mTV Episode
- Dans les tribunaux pour enfants, 3 affaires sur 5 concernent des enfants en danger que la justice doit protéger. Violences, déscolarisation, conflit parental Marie Receveur et Jean Toulier sont juges des enfants. Ils voient défiler dans leur cabinet les histoires de famille les plus douloureuses. En suivant leur quotidien au fil des audiences, ce film propose un regard inédit sur une justice discrète, mais qui fait résonner en chacun de nous des questions universelles : la place de l'enfant, la difficulté d'être parents Le cabinet du juge, se révèle alors être un thermomètre éloquent de notre société dans ce quelle a de plus fragile.
- Parmi tous les crimes et délits, les plus bouleversants pour l'opinion publique sont de loin ceux à caractère sexuel. Quand les coupables sont des adolescents, c'est l'incompréhension. Mais au-delà du choc du passage à l'acte et de limage de monstre qui leur colle à la peau, qui sont-ils vraiment ? Quel parcours de vie pour en arriver là ? Peuvent-ils être soignés ? A l'antenne de Psychiatrie et Psychologie légale de La Garenne Colombe, on tente depuis 10 ans une expérience rare en France. Des adolescents de 13 à 18 ans auteurs de violences sexuelles viennent ici chaque semaine sur obligation du juge, pour suivre une psychothérapie. Dans ce service spécialisé, Samuel Lemitre est psychologue-criminologue. Il suit ses jeunes patients pendant plusieurs mois voire plusieurs années, en consultations individuelles ou en thérapies de groupe. Par une immersion inédite au coeur de ses consultations habituellement tenues à huis clos, Jeux criminels explore la pratique engagée de ce psychologue atypique, en questionnant les causes de ces violences et les soins possibles pour éviter la récidive.
- 2006– 52mTV Episode
- In June 2019, the chambermaids at France's largest Ibis hotel, Porte de Clichy, in Paris, decided to break out of their silence and self-denial. They went on strike to denounce the infernal pace of work, the unpaid work and the harsh conditions inflicted on them by the Accor group via the subcontractor that employs them. In court, they dared to speak of exploitation and discrimination on the part of the leading European hotel group and third largest in the world. It is an entire system that is being singled out in this fight that they have been waging, without respite, for almost two years. For Rachel Kéké, spokesperson for the movement, Sylvie Kimissa and the others, it is a primordial and uncertain struggle that has begun and is turning their lives upside down.
- 2006– 1h 3mTV Episode
- Denain, a small commune of 20,000 inhabitants in the north of France, has never recovered from the closure of its huge Usinor steelworks 40 years ago. Today it is one of the poorest towns in France. It is emblematic of the France of the invisible, of those whose voices are almost never heard on television. This documentary follows Allan and Chloé, two children from Denain who are now young adults, in their family intimacy. Through their lives, their loved ones and the scenery that surrounds them, the film questions their aspirations to stay or not to stay in this land that they both love and reject, in order to build their own future.
- In a secondary school in the Bas-Rhin region, some fourth-grade students refuse to attend swimming pool class, citing religious reasons. Director Clarisse Feletin dives into the management of this crisis, which puts the teaching staff on a knife-edge, two years after the murder of Samuel Paty. The life of the school is turned upside down, as is that of the city's Turkish community, to which some of the students belong. At the same time, in Paris, at the Ministry of Education, the members of the Council of Wise Men in charge of secularism open their door to a camera for the first time as they try to provide answers to the teachers and their disoriented management. What support does the teaching team have to ensure that secularism is respected in their school?
- In France, thousands of young people choose to leave the marked paths of society. They abandon their home and school to start on the roads of Europe. Children of the crisis, they adopt a new way of life that seems freer. In the wake of English travelers' who fled England Thatcher, these young backpackers pilgrim way in truck in the countryside, the sandstone seasonal work. They evolve through chance encounters, always accompanied by their dogs, they provide comfort and security in difficult times.
- The diary of the exile of Elaha, a 14 year old Afghan girl, who films herself with a small camera to tell her story.
- The professor of History Samuel Paty was assassinated on October 16, 2020 by an extremist who was waiting for him when he left work. The reason ? The man had decided to reveal caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his students during a lesson on freedom of expression. He quickly received hate messages and threats after rumors against him spread on social networks. Students and members of the teaching staff of the establishment testify and reveal how they try to find a certain serenity and continue to move forward despite the scale of the tragedy they have experienced.
- Bumidom, Bureau of Overseas Departments Migration, was created in 1963 by Michel Debré following an official trip to Reunion Island in 1959 with General de Gaulle. He proceeded to move thousands of people to Paris and the French province, a movement without return which, according to Aimé Césaire, was akin to deportation, as the conditions of reception of migrants were not those presented to them before their departure.
- 2006– 1h 1mTV Episode
- 2006– 1h 2mTV Episode
- Hélène Berr, a young brilliant Jewish female student of literature at the Sorbonne University, lives in Paris during the Nazi occupation. She keeps a diary from 1942 till 1944, wherein she describes the mounting horrors of the persecution of the Jews. In 1944 she is arrested with her parents and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She dies in Bergen-Belsen, a few days before the liberation of that concentration camp. Her secret diary was kept in the family and finally published in 2008.
- Despite Gaza's political and social reality, a team of archaeologists goes on to save a legacy of this rich yet unknown past. No one ignores Gaza's political and social reality, but no one really knows about its history. Yet, Gaza was coveted and admired by Ramesses II, Alexander the Great and Cleopatra. What are the secrets of this rich yet unknown past? As the work of the Franco-Palestinian team of archaeologists goes on, the contrast between the incredible youth of Gaza, its ancient history and its historical and archaeological heritage is revealed. A mission to save a legacy to give the people of Gaza their roots and their pride.
- 2006– 52mTV Episode