History
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 “...
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...
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...
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...
DE GAULLE vs. CHURCHILL: memories of war
The film narrate the battle of memorialists that Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill fought while writing their respective Memoirs which tell their Second World War but not always from the same point of view. We rediscover Churchill and De Gaulle under a new light, as writers in a genre they hav...
ONE STRUGGLE: on the solidarity between Jewish and Black people in the United States
An inspiring movie about social struggle.
A historical depiction of the early 20th century.
A story about the solidarities between two worlds, despite and beyond tensions.
With a past known by every activist in the world, the United States raise important issues, thanks to its rich ...
THE LAST SECRETS OF THE GREAT SPHINX OF GIZA
The Sphinx of Giza.
This more-than-4500-years-old statue is certainly the most emblematic in the world.
This man-headed lion has intrigued archaeologists for generations. 73 meters long and 20 meters high, this megastructure remains enigmatic.
Why was it built... and above all, how?
The ...
The lost silver pharaohs of Tanis
After Tutankhamun, it is THE most important archaeological discovery of the 20th century. However, having gone unnoticed due to the outbreak of the Second World War, and eclipsed by the excavation of the exceptional treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb by the British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922, i...
