History
BEHIND THE IRON MASK, only science knows
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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5 DAYS that changed TRUMP
From Trump Tower to the steps of the White House, discover the story of the man who defied every rule.
A real estate tycoon turned reality TV star, Donald Trump shattered the codes of American politics to conquer the Oval Office.
Love, betrayal, scandals, sensational moves... Step behind the s...
Armenians, the Hidden Grandmothers
The director Alexandra Routhiau Mikaélian, French of Armenian origin, made a promise to her grandfather, to find the members of their family in Turkey based on a simple name, Shahimé, this sister he was never able to meet. From this journey through time in search of the living, Alexandra will lift t...
14-18: THE VOLUNTARY PRISONER
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...
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...
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 GOLDEN YEARS OF THE AUTOMOBILE
This documentary collection plunges us into the most fascinating industrial adventure of the last 130 years: that of the motor car, an incredible instrument of freedom, which revolutionised people’s lifestyles at the end of the 19th century.
The cars that have been successful are the markers of e...
BAKHITA the survivor, the slave who broke her chains
The story of Bakhita, a Sudanese slave who took holy orders in Italy at the end of the 19th century and was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 2000.
In Sudan at the end of the 19th century, Bakhita, ‘the lucky one’ in Arabic, was sold to a slave trader by slave traders. The documentary a...
To Live Against Their Will
Annexed to Germany after the defeat of 1940, Alsace and Moselle underwent intense Nazification. Between 1942 and 1944, around 130,000 young people from Alsace and Moselle were drafted against their will into the Wehrmacht, the vast majority of whom were sent to the Eastern Front. The fate of these “...
MAYAS: the secrets of the last 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...
