History
Life Stories
One was deported for being a Jew, the other for being a Resistant, the third for being both... Three women who experienced the hell of the extermination camps describe their descent into the unspeakable...
Gisèle Guillemot, from Normandy, was involved in sabotaging German military trains. All of ...
THE DEVIL’S CHILD
December 1989. The Ceausescu regime collapses. The world discovers the horrible extent of this dictatorship, especially images showing hundreds of thousands of children confined and abused in orphanages. Marion is one of these orphans, a devil’s child, as she calls herself. A French couple adopted h...
WELCOME TO ANGKAR
This documentary film tells the saga of Thell, a 28-year-old Cambodian, snatched from her home by the Khmer Rouge, and a survivor of the Cambodian genocide (1975-1979).
The director uses the camera and a pencil to redraw these fragments of history, resurrecting them to recount the horrors endured a...
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 ...
