History
Chinese Propaganda Lesson in Forbidden Territory
An authoritarian People’s Republic or a real dictatorship? In less than a generation, China has become the economic engine of the planet. But what if this economic power, which seems to take precedence over political and social power, was in the hands of a dictatorship whose single aim was to expand...
Rising from the Ruins
Civilian suffering and shortages didn’t stop as through by magic with the end of the war in 1945: the reconstruction process took many years to complete.
In Caen, one of the cities worst affected by bombing, wartime and post-war children look back on a time of hardship, but also of hope and solidar...
UKRAINE, the forgotten genocide (Holodomor)
In 32-33, in whole world indifference, the Staline's USSR plans an artificial starvation, called "Holodomor" which claims 6 millions victims.
Through survivors' narrations and french and ukrainian personalities' interviews, the film testifies to the means used by USSR in order to starve ukrainian f...
THE HILL OF CROSSES, THE SPIRIT OF A PEOPLE
In the heart of Lithuania stands an astonishing hill completely covered with crosses.
Since its origin, dating back to the 19th century, the hill has been a symbol of the Lithuanian people's resistance in the presence of their oppressors. Facing attacks from various sides, Lithuania put up a spirit...
My life with De Gaulle
For 10 years, Admiral Flohic was advisor and aide-de-camp to General de Gaulle, then president of the French Republic.
A privileged observer, he shares some of the historical events he witnessed, including the reception of Adenauer and Kennedy, "Free Quebec", the surprise expedition to Baden-Baden i...
Homo Orcus
May 2010 : the discovery by German and French palaeontologists of a new hominid species. An investigation into the existence of this “intra-terrestrial” plunges us into a profusion of scientific, philosophical and moral questions.
The beginning of 2010 was full of surprises for those interested in...
The Savoies, Memory of a Country
Over the course of ten episodes, amateur films from the past, images and modern day accounts combine to evoke the pluralistic memory and complex history of a region. Ultra-modern factories nestled in the hollows of valleys, popular imagery and folklore, memories of roped climbing parties, emigrants ...
This stranger that I love
Throughout the Algerian War, for many months, young women wrote to young soldiers they didn't know. We use to call them the god mothers.
50 years later, they tell us their story : over the course of letters, feelings have evolved. A lot of them still ignored that, a word after an other, they were wr...
Going With the Seasons
In the 1950s, foreseeing the permanent disappearance of an agricultural tradition that had been maintained for centuries by generations of farmers, a filmmaker captured the last vestiges of a dying lifestyle in a rural village in Normandy.
60 years later, the senior citizens of the same village look...
STORIES OF HAPPY MEMORIES
The savoyard’s departments have now a bank of more than 4000 regional movies of amateur and professional film makers. This documentary series allows us to feel the amateur nature of the film makers but it’s also a unique tool preserving the collective memory: each documentary is the portrait of a pe...
