History
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...
THE POSTMAN OF NAGASAKI
On August 9th1945, a sixteen year old postman is delivering mail when the atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki. In his book “The Postman of Nagasaki” published in 1984, Peter Townsend describes not only Sumiteru Taniguchi’s struggle to survive but also the horrifying consequences he endured afterwards...
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?...
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...
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...
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 ...
AKHENATEN, the secrets of the forgotten Pharaoh
September 2020, near Luxor.
A team of Egyptian archaeologists has announced the discovery of a lost city buried under the sands, near the Valley of the Kings. 3400 years old, it is the largest ancient city ever unearthed and one of the greatest discoveries since the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Buried...
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...
