History
Ancient cities : the Builders of History
They Built Cities to Assert Their Power. A thousand years later, their walls still speak. This is the story of the builders of the medieval world.
Step into the heart of the Middle Ages, where stone ruled, cities embodied power, and builders became legends. This documentary series brings myt...
THE POSTMAN OF NAGASAKI
On August 9th, 1945, a sixteen-year-old postman was delivering mail on his bicycle when the atomic bomb exploded over the city of Nagasaki. In his book “The Postman of Nagasaki” published in 1984, Peter Townsend, a former Royal Air Force fighter pilot, describes Sumiteru Taniguchi’s struggle to surv...
5 DAYS that changed TRUMP
He decides fast.
Too fast.
He shocks.
He divides.
He imposes.
And no one truly understands why.
This film is not about Trump the president.
It is about Trump the man.
Through five key moments in his life, this documentary traces the origins of his instincts, his excesses, his brutali...
THE DEBT
This film tells the story of my family between 1943 and the present day, between Amiens, Calais and Berlin. It's a film about what we pass on beyond what we would like to, and about what we receive that we don't want.
I was born three decades after the fall of the Nazi regime.
A month after th...
The Françoise Claustre Affair
In 1974, in the remote Tibesti Mountains in northern Chad, French archaeologist Françoise Claustre was kidnapped by rebels, along with two other Westerners. The incident quickly took on a political dimension. Amid government silence, diplomatic missteps, and rising tensions with the Chadian regime, ...
THE IRON MASK: The Enigma of the Sun King
A two-part docuseries uncovering the truth behind one of France’s most legendary mysteries — who was the man behind the mask?
Masked until his dying breath, imprisoned for 34 years without ever being tried, the mysterious Man in the Iron Mask continues to haunt the history of France.
Was he a ...
WOMEN IN RESISTANCE
Izieu’s children deportation: Never Forgiven or Forgotten – 2024 (52’)
The story of the forty-four children of the Izieu colony, who were rounded up by Klaus Barbie in April 1944 along with their educators and most of whom were murdered in Auschwitz, has become emblematic of the persecution and d...
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...
