Documentaries
Hidden in the Attic: Memoirs of a Postman, 1914-18
This film is first and foremost a discovery. Nine volumes of a diary written during the First World War and found in a plastic bag left at an Emmaüs outside Paris.
Achille Bourgin, a 33-year-old father and post office clerk, did not go to the Front, having been exempted due to tuberculosis. To a...
Izieu’s children deportation: Never Forgiven or Forgotten
Through sheer determination, Sabine Zlatin helped to publicise the story of the roundup of the children of Izieu in April 1944 and to make it part of the history of France.
In July 1933, a 27-year-old woman tried to kill herself with a revolver on Boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris. Who was she?...
The Secrets of the Rafale
Immerse yourself in the heart of a technological revolution in one of the most powerful combat aircraft in the world.
This documentary highlights the spectacular story of the Rafale, flagship of the French aerospace and defence industry, from its conception in 1986 to the present day. A resoundin...
TULUM, MAYAPAN, COBA: the last Mayan cities
In their own way, Coba, Mayapan and Tulum all played host to the last moments of a civilisation as impressive as it is mysterious.
What do these three cities tell us about the way Mayan societies operated? How does their architecture inform the experts about the scientific knowledge and construct...
1924: the Pride of Black Paris
Opening in 1924 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, the most famous West Indian dance hall in the capital, the Bal Blomet, was the crucible of a new black identity.
It was there, far from accusing eyes, that the creoles of Paris and integrated workers, artists, intellectuals and “revolutionaries...
DE GAULLE vs. CHURCHILL: memories of war
The film narrate the battle of memorialists that Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill fought while writing their respective Memoirs which tell their Second World War but not always from the same point of view. We rediscover Churchill and De Gaulle under a new light, as writers in a genre they hav...
FRANKY ZAPATA, THE FLYING MAN’S ULTIMATE CHALLENGE
For almost ten years, Franky Zapata has been working to make his dream of flying through the air in complete freedom a reality. This former jet ski world champion has rapidly become the best-known and most prolific French inventor of his generation.
Nicknamed “The Flying Man” thanks to his Flyboa...
Who really is the man in the Iron mask ?
One of the oldest cold cases in history
A scientific investigation, led by the forensic scientist-anthropologist Philippe Charlier and the historian Christophe Roustan Delatour takes us on a fascinating adventure in search of the identity of the most famous and enigmatic prisoner who ever lived.
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Abu Simbel: Giants of the Nile
Discover the history of a legendary temple, from its construction to today!
Over 3000 years ago, at the gates of the country of Punt (the present-day Sudan), Ramses II, a megalomaniac pharaoh and the third king of the nineteenth dynasty, built two religious structures during the height ...
SAYPE, The World is a Canvas
With his gigantic biodegradable frescoes, painted on grass, on sand, on rock, Guillaume Legros, alias Saype is one of the pioneers of the Land Art movement. Since 2013, he has travelled the world, tagging humanist messages on the ground in places steeped in history.
His massive interloc...
