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UNDERWATER VOLCANO 52’ 4K
Beneath the oceans’ surface, thousands of volcanoes have yet to be discovered or explored. Mount La Perouse is one of these sleeping giants, off the coast of Reunion Island. It is a genuine oasis of life that could be sheltering sprawling coral reefs. Embark on a unprecedented human and scientific adventure.
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New Line up Spring 2021
THE DEEP MED 52’&90’ 4K
After «700 SHARKS» and «EXPEDITION ANTARCTICA», Laurent Ballesta has yet again challenged himself to a new world record: spending 28 days at a depth of 100 meters, pushing the limits of his body to reveal the luxuriant depths of the Mediterranean. From Marseille to Nice, the 4 adventurers reveal the treasures of biodiversity hidden in the Mediterranean and study the unknown ecosystems of its depths. A human, technical and scientific challenge to study the unknown ecosystem of the Mediterranean’s depths.
NATURA EUROPATHE BEATING WINGS 52’ 4K
Of the 600 species of land birds that nest in Europe, almost half migrate each year in spring and fall. Migratory birds fly thousands of kilometers to reach their final destination in Africa or the Middle East. While crossing Europe, they have to endure pollution and climate change, lovers of migratory birds are flocking, in wait for their return. Discover a new type of relationship between humans and wild animals!
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GEO REPORTS - Season 22 - 26x52’ with 10 episodes in 4K
Whether they depict deep-sea divers in the Bermuda triangle or game keepers in the far reaches of the Siberian forest, these films provide us with insights into the lives and work of exceptional men and women. Our teams travel the planet explo-ring nature, technology and remote civilizations and portray what they discover there through meticulously documented, emotion-packed reports.
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UNMISSABLE DESTINATIONS 50x7’
Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was once a lighthouse? That the Great Wall of China was built with rice? That Frankenstein’s monster owes everything to an Italian frog or that at a certain time in Switzerland spaghetti grew on trees? The series tells you the unknown story of an emblematic place.
STILL AVAILABLE: DESTINATIONS 380x13’
VOLCANO STORIES - Season 2 15x26’ & 2x52’
This stunning hosted series takes us to 40 volcanoes filmed accross 6 continents over several years to learn about sacred volcanos, beneficial volcanos, and destructive volcanos to tell the amazing story of the symbiotic link between men and these fire mountains.
STILL AVAILABLE: VOLCANO STORIES - Season 1 20x26'
HAPPY AS A CAT 52'
Cats are the most popular pets in France. More than 13 million of them share our lives. And their numbers are ever-increasing in the whole wide world. We are fascinated by these mysterious animals: free, wild, independent and always happy! The famous writer Bernard Werber narrates this fantastic journey into the feline world.
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S C I E N C ELOSING SLEEP 52’ & 90’ 4K
Insomnia, narcolepsy and sleep apnea are massively increasing in the world. In this investigation, we discover the new methods developed to find sleep: fractional sleep, light therapy, helmets that stimulate the brain. The science of sleep has become a major priority for researchers, so much so that the Nobel Prize in medicine has just been awarded for the discovery of the internal biological clock.
DATA SCIENCE VS FAKE 31 x 2’
Thanks to data visualizing, discover a series that transforms data into visually appealing and scientifically accurate animated pictures. Explore graphs that represent figures down to the last pixel... Truth and falsehood have never been clearer.
A series of animated films designed to combat misconceptions and misinformation.
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SAPIENS: THE NEW ORIGINS 2x45’ 4K
In remote 1960s Morocco, a remarkable finding was made at the archeological site of Jebel Irhoud: remains of Homo Sapiens. Today we can date them back to 300,000 years old. This is a discovery that rewrites the story of Mankind’s origins, because up until now, the oldest remains found date back to 200,000 years ago!
NANOWORLD, THE KEY TO OUR SURVIVAL 52’ 4K
Nature is an inexhaustible source of knowledge. After 3 billion years of evolution, living things have been constantly adapting to their envi-ronment in order to survive. What solutions have they acquired to deal with potentially life-threatening problems? Scientists have finally managed to unravel its mysteries.
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C I N E M ATOM CRUISE, AN ETERNAL YOUTH 52’
After a career spanning 40 years, Tom Cruise does not seem to have developed one wrinkle. His legendary smile has dominated many blockbuster productions. This film will try to unveil the man behind the film icon. Although he was, for a long time, Hollywood’s highest paid star, Tom Cruise is also a secret and tormented actor.
JODIE FOSTER, A HOLLYWOOD CHILD PRODIGY 52’
From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster’s story is about a feminist struggle, albeit atypical, fought on and off the screen. This film sets out to retrace her remarkable journey within the Hollywood industry.
FRANK CAPRA: AN AMERICAN TALE 52'
A small Sicilian immigrant became in the 1930’s a director with dazzling success. His movies are deeply humanist and universal. If Capra’s films have constantly promoted the American dream, this documentary especially wonders what it costs to adopt it. If Capra spends so much time giving proof of his patriotism, it’s probably because he partly believes it, but above all, he knows its limits.
CITIZEN KITANO 52’ & 70’
Takeshi Kitano is an international icon. We know the actor, the multi-award-winning filmmaker, but many ignore his double personality: the crazy TV star, the street kid from Tokyo close to the Yakuza, and the political satirist who blasted taboos!
Can we dream of a better guide to introduce us to the cultural history of Japan?
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MUHAMMAD ALI THE GREATEST - 2020 RESTORED VERSION 123’
Who was Ali ? This first and only real portrait, contrary to recent stock shot montages, brings a powerful, often hilarious, and always entertaining answer. In 1964, Cassius Clay beco-mes world champion heavyweight and declares his name is Muhammad Ali. A date in sports history and a turning point in black awareness.
The Masterpiece of William Klein
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ANTONY PERKINS, THE ACTOR BEHIND THE DOOR 52’
While most of the stars of his gene-ration have fallen into oblivion, his face and name remain familiar to a younger 21st century audience, fond of Giallo and slashers. His filmogra-phy ended up being rather impressive for an actor who was so abusively reduced to his only role for Alfred Hitchcock. We also discover that he was an amazing crooner.
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THE MYSTERY OF MELIES 58’
Georges Méliès has been hailed as the inventor of special effects. He shot more than 500 amazing films between 1896 and 1913. By 1923 he was bankrupt and burned his enrapturing works... Thanks to international archives: these negatives – which had actually gone up in smoke – reappeared across the world.
PURE MUSCLE 10x5’
What if bodybuilding was not just a simple sporting and aesthetic discipline? What if it the practice was actually conforming to the social pressures of our neoliberal society, by celebrating and encouraging the constant surpassing of oneself?
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FASHION MATTERS 52’
After decades of growth and ostentation, when every excess was allowed, the fashion industry is currently at a turning point, caught up in the political issues that are reshaping our times: the environment and sustainable development, cultural representation and appropriation, equality, gender issues... Brands and creators are now subject to increasingly sharp public scrutiny. How is the fashion industry facing these challenges and responding to this new paradigm? Based as it is on the concept of planned obsolescence, can fashion survive?
FOOD MARKETS - Season 4 5x52’
5 markets, 5 complex systems that play a crucial role in their city: Cork, Valencia, Bergen, Thessaloniki and Cagliari ... They all have a big belly: the city food market that feeds a great part of their population. We all know what a food market is. But what do we know about how a food market actually works? A tasty series.
STILL AVAILABLE: FOOD MARKETS Season 1 to 3 15x52'
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F O O D & T R A V E L
FOOTBALL REBELS SEASON 2 5x26’
At a time when business seems to be corrupting our relationship with sports, the indomitable Eric Cantona shows us footballers who’ve managed to resist. Their names areTamburrini, Thaljieh, Afonsinho, Navazo or Lucarelli. A documentary series/manifesto that reasserts the values of sport among citizens.
ALWAYS AVAILABLE: FOOTBALL REBELS - SEASON 1 5x26'
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STEPHEN KING, A NECESSARY EVIL 52'
Consecrated “king of horror” of modern literature, he distinguished himself in other genres such as fantasy, science fiction or detective stories. Several of his works have been adapted for cinema such as Shining by Stanley Kubrick, Dead Zone by David Cronenberg or Misery by Rob Reiner. Long despised by literary critics, it has since won several prestigious awards such as the National Book Award.
TONI MORRISON - BLACK MATTER(S) 52’
America’s racial turmoil is ever-present in today’s global media and Toni Morrison’s work has never been more relevant. Morrison passed at the age of 88 in 2019 as the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her eleven novels were translated in dozens of languages, and she is considered a true figurehead of African-American literature.
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THE MOROZOV BROTHERS: THE STORY OF A COLLECTION 52'
This film traces the history of one of the most prestigious collections of French impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, acquired by two Russian industrialists before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, then nationalized by Lenin, before being divided between museums in Moscow and Leningrad, and then disappearing for 50 years.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL 52’
A portrait of Ernest Hemingway in love makes us delve into the intimacy of a man infinitely more complex than the image he liked to give. We discover the author’s relationship with each of his four wives, which will enable us to re-read his work with a different perspective. Each of them corresponds to a time and a place during the author’s life, allowing us to move from the bohemian Paris of the 1920s to the Florida of the 1930s, then back to Europe during World War II before discovering the Cuba of the 1950s; our story ends in Idaho, America, where Ernest Hemingway chose to kill himself at the age of 61.
Anniversary of his death 60 years ago (July 1961)
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L I T E R A T U R ETHE MANUSCRIPTS’ SECRET HISTORY 4x26
This series retraces the origins and journeys of major European works of international significance, whose original manuscript has survived through the ages. With Alice in Wonderland by LEWIS CAROL Les Misérables by VICTOR HUGO, Don Giovanni by MOZART, The trial by FRANZ KAFKA.
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THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY 20x26’
The creators of ‘The great Greek Myths’ bring to you ‘The Illiad and the Odyssey’, an epic tale on the origins of the world and its inevitable downfall, that mixes animation and 3D iconography. A story in which gods and mortals intermingle, and whose poetic force has crossed the centuries and still nourishes our present.
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H I S T O R YMUSIC OF ANCIENT GREECE 52'
An investigation into an old papyrus discovered in a storeroom of the Louvre museum has revealed that it was a very ancient Greek score. But how can we know who composed it? How do we interpret this music? And where do we find the ancient instruments to play it? Thanks to new technologies, it is now possible to virtually reconstruct and hear sounds that have been lost for two millennia.
NAPOLEON, DESTINY AND DEATH 52’ & 90’ 4K
2021 marks the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon, the man who dodged death 6 times, forging himself a reputation of being immortal. He thought that he defied death because he had a role to play in history, that he was predestined to rule over Europe. We revisit the story of this charismatic character to better understand his personality, his legend and his unique relationship with death. Anniversary: May 2021
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LADIES AND PRINCES OF PREHISTORY 52'
The exceptional burials of the Palaeolithic remain relatively unknown to the general public. Most of them date from around 25,000 years ago. Their study reveals ornamentation that challenges our preconceived notions about the period. Their great beauty also raises a cardinal question: who were these individuals, buried with such care and adornments: shamans? Chieftains? Or common individuals?
THE STORY OF THE RED ARMY 2x52’
For 70 years, the Red Army was one of the foundations of the USSR, an instrument of fear as well as admiration, a symbol of liberation as well as coercion. This documentary explores its history, combining epic narrative and deconstruction of the myth.
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THE GOERING CATALOG 52’&90’
For more than a decade, the number two in the Third Reich amassed a collection of more than 5,000 art works, all meticulously detailed in a catalog. But how did Hermann Goering get his hands on these works? Why did he plunder collections, mainly those belonging to Jewish families, victims of the Holocaust?
H I S T O R YSTALIN’S EXECUTIONERS - THE KATYN MASSACRE 52’& 90’
In April 1940, 22,000 Polish war prisoners were killed by the NKVD, the Soviet political police. Originally attributed to the Nazis, the Katyn tragedy remained a secret for 50 years. It was only on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union that Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to recognise Stalin’s responsibility in the perpetration of these crimes.
THE LOST FILM OF NUREMBERG 52’
The director sets off in search of the film “Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today”, the official 80’ film of the Nuremberg trial by the Schulberg brothers, that was withdrawn from circulation in post war United States for geopolitical reasons, and then disappeared. This is the story of the film itself, how and why it was censored, how it was found again and the lessons it teaches us on how we treat collective memory.
THE UNGEMACH EXPERIMENT, A STORY OF EUGENICS 52’
In 1924, a garden city, called “Ungemach”, was inaugurated in Strasbourg; it was restricted to couples who bore “healthy and fertile strains”. This officially eugenicist experiment was endorsed by both political and scientific authorities, and the selection system lasted until the 1980s!
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ISRAEL/IRAN/USA: THE LONG WAR 2x52’
Targeted assassinations, bombings, unidentified military attacks are piling up all over the Middle East. Can the «secret war» between Iran and Israel turn into a major regional if not global confrontation? The two countries are nowadays the two dominant powers in the Middle East. Their conflict is reinforced when Donald Trump has decided to leave the nuclear agreement. The film looks back over the forty years that followed the Islamic revolution in Iran, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Civil war in Syria, to offer relevant keys to understanding the new Middle East.
I N V E S T I G A T I O NFLYING OBJECTS – A STATE SECRET 52’ 4K
This film is a rigorous investigation into a subject which has always been considered science fiction. UFOs exist, and officials from the Pentagon, the NASA and from other prestigious institutions prove it to you. They reveal the existence of a top secret program created in the 2000’s that has been studying unidentified flying objects in our atmosphere and filming them. Are you ready for the truth?
BASED ON A TRUE STORY 8x26’
This documentary series picks up where fictional adaptations left off and tells the real-life stories they are based on, using a wealth of archive material to retrace the extraordinary lives of the ordinary people involved. Featuring the stories of Mark Ashton (Pride), Gerry Conlon (In the Name of Father), Lucie Aubrac, the Monks of Tibhirine (Of gods and men), and more.
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GACHA GACHA 9x5’These nine modules will immerse us in the very heart of Japanese society, in the very heart of Tokyo, its energy, its fantasy, its contradictions. The documentary series will decipher «Japan from inside out», in a fun, odd and offbeat way.Each of the nine episodes of this series Gacha Gacha is designed in a fun discovery mode, to dissect nine typically Japanese rites. Ways of doing things that are both millennial and hypermodern, dis-ciplined bodies and lively minds, a very modest and suddenly exhibitionist daily life. Technological and spooky materials, sounds and colors.Examples of episodes :WASHLET, THE LOO OF THE EXTREMEZURU ZURU, THE SOUND OF STREET FOODOJIGI, THE JAPANESE ART OF BOWING
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GLUTEN, PUBLIC ENEMY N°1 52’ & 78’ 4K
Wheat has always been the staple food of humanity, the very foundation of the first civilizations of the world. But today, for a growing number of people, it has become a poison, which has allowed the emergence of a new market of expensive gluten-free products.And yet, the real cause of this sudden tsunami of grain intolerance remains a mystery. How come all of a sudden, many of us no longer support cereal, highly nutritious in protein? Have recent changes in our eating habits triggered the epidemic? Is wheat not the good old grain we’ve been eating for 10,000 years? Scientists, activists and committed farmers are trying to uncover the truth on the real qualities of industrial foods.
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