History
The Mysteries of Chambord
500 years after it was built, this film tells a new story of the Castle of Chambord, showing the recent discoveries of two historians and revealing the secret codes hidden in the whole building.
Plodding a long time through mist and swamps, the 16th century traveler discovered Chambord rising out ...
Golden Age of The Castle
For nearly five centuries, castles were at the heart of a society based on ties of vassalage, bringing together political, administrative, judicial and economic functions in addition to defending a territory.This film traces the golden age of castles through the construction of the castle of Guédelo...
The Great History of Castles
Suffused with mystery and grandeur, castles testify to medieval civilization and enfold a complex reality.
Travelling from castle to castle, from the borders of Spain to the mountains of Switzerland, from the moorland of Scotland to the banks of the Dordogne, and thanks to 3D modeling, this film tr...
A Fortune in Venice
The story of the Stucky family reads like a novel. Swiss millers who became the wealthiest of Venetians, the Stuckys were indeed players in a typical 19th-century success story. This extraordinary industrial saga is intertwined with the history of the City of the Doges, whose staunch defenders the S...
Galileo, the Forger and the Expert: Investigating a Masterpiece of Counterfeiting
In 2005, an Italian, Massimo De Caro, succeeded in deceiving the rare-book world by offering for sale a remarkable copy of "Siderius Nuncius" signed by Galileo himself, dating from 1610 and containing four watercolours of the moon painted by the astronomer. The "Sidereus Nuncius" or "Starry Messenge...
RAYMOND ARON, the road to freedom
This is the story of one of the most brilliant minds of his time, whose ideas still seem remarkably modern.
A prolific author, Raymond Aron devoted his life to denouncing all forms of fanaticism, seeking the truth and hunting down lies. From the 1930s, he was one of the first to open people’s eyes ...
The man who needed to know
30th August 1945. Marie Sublon, her daughter Madeleine and her young son Jean François aged 3 years are found dead in their home in the Rabodeau valley.
A family of Nazi collaborators as the rumour goes…
5 years later, an anonymous letter denounces Fernand Caritey, the local chief of Resistance.
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The Nuremberg of Communism: Autopsy of a Stillborn Trial
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Bukovsky attempted to set
up a court to judge the crimes of communism. Currently entrenched in his house
in Cambridge and harassed by the British courts in a sordid sex case (possibly
engineered by the FSB), he shares with us the untold story o...
The Wind Laughs in the Cornfields: portrait of Maurice Joffo
Born of Jewish parents of Russian origin, Maurice Joffo, brother of the author of the bestseller "A Bag of Marbles", tells of his childhood and adolescence in occupied France, his life and his amazing journey to becoming the wealthy 87-year old man that he is today.
From his flight to the Free Zone ...
