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My mother ended her life on August 10, 2020. Now I have to put his things away. With what I collect in her drawers, from her entourage and in my memory, I fill, by all the means offered by the cinema, the void that she has left. A piecemeal journey made up of fragments of eras to understand this world that has become foreign to him.

Jazz in New Orleans, its history, its future after Katrina, through the photographs of Herman Leonard. The photographer embarked on a vast project to restore the archives after the hurricane struck.

Figure skating star Sarah Abitbol was raped by her coach when she was only 15 years old. Three decades later, she has decided to speak out. First in 2020, in a book entitled Un si long silence. Then on television. Finally, in this documentary by Remy Burkel and Emmanuelle Anizon. She started skating at the age of 5. Propelled in Paris to try her luck, the teenager meets this famous coach. "He scared everyone", she will admit. He is a great man who has a hold on her. During the stretching, the behavior of this man is unhealthy. But it is at the age of 15 that everything collapses. Sarah abitbol will write down these two years of sexual violence in a small notebook. She will never throw it away. It is at the moment of revealing herself, at 44 years old, that she finds it unexpectedly.

Documentary seeks to answer why the majority of the German people were so willing to follow Hitler, even as he led them into war.

The film to show a school in Naples, in an area where schooling is given no value, as is perhaps, the case in problem areas in other large Western cities.

Artist John Smith tells stories about tower block life, editing in bold, unconventional fashion, cutting into the material and highlighting the components and conventions of the film form - yet an intimate portrait of the block's inhabitants still emerges.

Shot behind the scenes, from the point of view of a subjective camera, the film shows the ethnologist’s ambiguous relations and negotiations with the people of his village in the mountains.

From the first conspiratorial meeting to publication: gripping documentary about the story behind the scandal video that brought down the Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache in 2019.

They are the secret protagonists of world history: dogs that became famous alongside powerful masters and mistresses. A four-legged friend helps to cultivate an image and can, depending on the calculations, make its owner appear sympathetic or threatening. In England, however, prime ministers have to get used to a cat...

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany has increased significantly since the massacre by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023. Jews are insulted, defamed, berated and attacked not only on the street, but also at universities and in the cultural sector. The anti-Semitic riots at the Free University of Berlin on December 14, 2023 and the completely inconsistent reactions to them from those responsible and politicians are representative of this. Jewish students in Germany have to fear for their lives again. Left-wing groups demand solidarity with Palestine, question Israel's right to exist, but completely ignore the Hamas massacres and, in their view of the Jews, rely on a simple worldview shaped by ancient prejudices and narratives.

One day it starts to rain and no-one knows why. And it doesn’t stop. Far out on the North Sea a fisherman raises a girl in his net, miraculously alive from the deep sea. Is she one of the migrants now washing up on English shores? Or someone sent for some higher purpose? Set in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event, which has seen England engulfed by water, this play asks a simple question: what if the fleeing masses from our TV screens and Twitter feeds, in their boats and their orange lifejackets, had English accents?

Powerful Stuff is a 1988 Electrical safety film made by the Independent Business Television Limited for the Electricity Council. It was shown in schools and edited into stand-alone PIFs for television broadcast.

Documentary film about the life and work of Dorothea Tanning, born in 1910, an artist associated with Surrealism who is one of the last survivors of this movement.

The foggy November day in Hamburg is not Nowak's day. The Hamburg taxi driver thinks he saw a dead body from "the neighborhood" being taken away in a garbage can. But all he wanted to do was return his son's teddy bear, which he had forgotten during a weekend visit to his divorced father. Suddenly, the taxi driver sees orange vehicles everywhere, and his wife even thinks he has kidnapped their son. He hasn't, so where is Timmy? The police don't want to hear any of it. "Forget it, Mr. Nowak!" Following a hunch, Nowak drives the garbage truck to the waste incineration plant on the outskirts of the city and enters the facility. What he discovers there is not what he expected...

The documentary embarks on a fascinating journey of discovery through the Alblasserwaard, revealing the wild side of this classic and idyllic Dutch landscape as the seasons change, as well as the astonishing number of animal species that have benefited from the legacy of windmills.

The "Carnival of the Animals" is Camille Saint-Saëns' best-known piece. Saint-Saëns did not want it to be published. On the 100th anniversary of the composer's death in December 2021, the documentary reports on the circumstances under which the piece of music was created, tells of Saint-Saëns' life and how the "Carnival of the Animals" ultimately became an evergreen in the music world.

The Rock of Gibraltar has been at the centre of a fiercely contested diplomatic dispute that has stretched over the centuries. For the past 300 years Spain has fought to regain this tiny British territory but in true David and Goliath style, the small community on the rock has fought back, choosing instead to remain British. In the summer of 2010, the director Ana Garcia returned home to Gibraltar to get married. Coming back to the most unique of British territories, she finds herself compelled to find out more about the history of her family and her birthplace. As she prepares for her wedding, we are taken on a very personal journey that uncovers the inspiring story of how a small community has fought for its homeland and identity. At times funny, at times tragic, this is a surprising tale of struggle and victory in the name of home and family.

Photographer Helmut Newton talks about his work.

200 young people under 25 have died in custody since 1992 in England and Wales. This is the story of three of them; young men who died behind bars - told by the people who knew them best, it explores the flaws in the system and the lapses in care that contributed to their deaths.

Waitrose opens its doors, revealing its plans to give shoppers the merriest of Christmases. A look behind the scenes as their chefs dream up festive recipes, the grapes are harvested for this year's fizz, and they make their Christmas advert.

Sir John Betjeman visits and explains the architecture of various churches in the Diocese of Norwich. Among those visited: Sandringham church on the Queen's private estate, the Holy House of Our Lady of Walsingham and Norwich Cathedral.

Writer Cédric Gras follows in the footsteps of Stalinist mountaineers in Kyrgyzstan. Pioneers of Central Asian exploration, they were first on the highest peaks of the Celestial Mountains. The film traces one of their expeditions to the Khan Tengri, which has become an amazing glacial trek.

Documentary about the controversial 1970s union boss Derek Robinson, who led the British Leyland workers into a series of strikes

A documentary about art movement ZERO.

From waiting for an organ to his fragile rebirth, this documentary follows the precarious journey of a forty-something father who has undergone a heart transplant. A sensitive reflection on the meaning of life.

The attacks of November 13, 2015 deeply marked France, with 131 dead and thousands injured, at the Stade de France, the Parisian terraces and the Bataclan. For the first time, victims, families, police officers, prosecutors, judges and lawyers recount their quest for truth and justice, from the night of the attacks to the final preparations for the trial that opens on September 8, 2021. For almost six years, the justice system has been on the move to investigate, question suspects, follow up on leads from Paris to Raqqa, and organize the largest terrorism trial France has ever seen.

Edoardo Ferrario's hilarious new stand-up comedy show. Filmed live in front of a packed audience at Rome's Teatro Brancaccio, "Diamoci un tono" is a compendium of travel stories, social commentary, pop culture, strange accents, badly dubbed films, and any other topic that can be laughed at without restraint.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) visited Barcelona for the first time at the age of 13. It was in Barcelona where he had his first studio, where he made his first engraving, his first illustration and his first exhibition. For Picasso, Barcelona would always be the city that dazzled him as a teenager. There all began.

With unique access to the Forbidden City, this documentary reveals the spectacular history of the world's largest palace, and the secrets of its astonishing design

A popular figure in 13th century Christian folktales, the Wandering Jew is said to have been condemned to wander the world forever because he denied Jesus of Nazareth a brief respite on the threshold of his home.

Recording by Rai Milan of Adelchi staged by Carmelo Bene at the Teatro Lirico in Milan in 1984, with the Rai orchestra and choir for the bicentenary of Alessandro Manzoni's birth. Broadcast only once on Rai 2 on September 9, 1985.

Hermann Göring's creation of 1933, the Gestapo, Geheime Staatspolizei, the secret state police charged with identifying individuals considered undesirable, was a redoubtable weapon in the hands of the Nazi power: a veritable device for terror. On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936.

Ashkenazi, Mizrachi, ultra-Orthodox, Israeli Arabs... The different groups that make up Israeli society seem irreconcilable. Who are they? Can their complicated history explain the current situation in the country?

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem by Louis Les yeux d'Elsa.

One year after the hurricane, almost half of the residents have still not returned to live in New Orleans. Among them, many poor black citizens. And their return is hardly encouraged.

A mock trial, featuring 5 international judges, to evaluate whether Austrian president and former U.N. secretary-general Kurt Waldheim should be tried as a war criminal.

The right to freedom of speech is an essential element to democracy. In our so-called democratic countries, is there space for a concrete exercise of such inviolable right? Or is its guarantee a utopian Constitutional ideal? In 2002, pirate local TV stations started to spread throughout Italy, as an answer to the lack of public access television and a statement against the oligarchic control over the most influential medium. INTERFERENZE explores the intriguing story of what became known as the Telestreet network through the personal experience of the members of Orfeo TV, the pirate station who initiated the movement. —Zoe D'Amaro

National Geographic gets 10 experts to pick the most significant natural disasters ever, adding eyewitness accounts and CGI to flesh out the stories.