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30 years after the fall of the Romanian dictator Ceausescu in 1989, we get a reconstruction of one of the most violent events during the fall of the communist regimes. The investigation exposes the gray areas of a coup d'état sparked by the ex-communist elites under the guise of a people's revolution. And zooms in on the role of the media in the mock trial and execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena.

It is August 1951 and an entire French village goes crazy. People are screaming in the streets and throwing themselves out of windows. 300 people are affected and 7 end up dead. Wild theories start circulating to explain the tragedy. 60 years later declassified documents from the United States reveal that the CIA conducted experiments on unsuspecting citizens.

In southern Peru stands an Inca city, uninhabited for several centuries but still virtually intact: Machu Picchu. Discovered in the early 20th century, it attracts a million visitors every year from the four corners of the globe to admire the skills of the powerful civilization that built it. At an altitude of more than 2,400 metres, the Incas managed to carve out a deep ridge to erect a masterpiece of architecture and engineering in perfect harmony with nature. Despite their engineering prowess, the Incas had no writing system to speak of. Still, they managed to devise a complex water drainage system and to design buildings according to a sky map. Now, thanks to insights from experts and spectacular 3D animation, you will discover the secrets behind the construction of Machu Picchu and the genius of the Inca builders.

Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, had a life of commitments: youth among the Capuchins, resistant during the Second World War, then deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle. The creation of Emmaus will mark the beginning of its fight against social inequalities, its appeal launched during the difficult winter of 54 will have a resounding echo in our society. This retrospective retraces the life of Abbé Pierre, archives and testimonies show it on all fronts of the fight against misery and injustice, for the support of the poorly housed, the excluded.

A look at the fascinating lives and careers of Greek sculptor Memos Makris (1913-1993) and Serbian multidisciplinary artist Zizi Makri (1924-2014).

A brief history of the various harvesting techniques since wheat has existed.

1939: France decrees general mobilization. Labeled a degenerate artist, Pablo Picasso takes refuge in Royan, where Maya, his daughter, and Marie-Thérèse Walter, his companion, are staying. He is accompanied by his secretary Jaime Sabartes and also by the captivating Dora Maar. Within this setting of peace and light, surrounded by friends and family, Picasso is soon seduced by this laid-back lifestyle. This apparent tranquility is perhaps only a false pretense... In the privacy of his studio, the artist is visited by monsters, reminding him of the threat of imminent danger. Confronted with dark forces, the artist cannot escape forever and has to face his truth and the truth of the world.

When the navigator Christopher Columbus came across the same 'mainland' four times on his four voyages of discovery between 1492 and 1504, he had no idea that he had discovered a new continent from the European perspective and that this would change the way the world was perceived forever.

August 1661. Henriette de Coligny, Comtesse de la Suze, solicits from the ecclesiastical justice the holding of a Congress.

1878, New Caledonia. As a bloody battle rages on, a missionary locks eyes with of a young Kanak girl. What if he could save her?

Paris, July 14, 1789. The kingdom has been in crisis for several months, and the city is buzzing with unrest. Citizens are angry and have had enough of inequality, unemployment and hunger. Armed with axes, hay thieves, knives and rifles, they storm the Bastille fortress. Join us for the crazy day in the streets of Paris, which has become a symbol of the French Republic.

Hitler, Goring, Himmler...the three architects of the Final Solution. But these three men, like many other high ranking Nazis, shared another obsession: a fascination with animals. Whether it was experiments to create the purest bred of horse or trying to resurrect the long extinct wild auroch, they sought to control and purify the animal kingdom We investigates these secret Nazi programmes.

May 68, behind the scene

Two young Polish resistance fighters take refuge after an operation. Wounded, freezing and exhausted, they are faced with the choices of their engagement. They only have one match left, a last moment of heat before a final decision, as the enemy approaches.

Jerusalem, a city surrounded by sacred sites like the Dome of the Rock, Mount of Olives, and Wailing Wall, is a hub of legends, bloody dramas, and betrayals. The Garden of Gethsemane and the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre are believed to be the sites of betrayal and the miracle of the sacred fire.

The life of a peasant family in the years 1650-1670 in Brittany. ; This film was made as part of an Educational Action Project at the Collège de Saint-Méen.

A poignant revelation of the City of Light's dark side.

For 100 years, radio has accompanied the daily lives of millions of listeners. Hosts, journalists, producers, and on-air directors relive the great moments in the history of radio, revealing the behind-the-scenes stories of yesterday's and today's programs, while recalling with emotion their first memories as listeners.

This short tells the story of a mythical Norse warrior hero who in myth, gains an accursed hoard of gold.

The film sheds a fresh look at the passionate duel between Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. Beneath the popular battle, behind the polished legend, we discover the intimate portrait of two women, with their own scars and flaws.

The Battle of Liaoyang began on August 29, 1904 and continued until September 1 when the Russians were forced to retreat. On September 6 the Japanese occupied the Yentai Mines to the north of Liaoyang. (The History of the Russo-Japanese War by Sydney Tyler published 1905)

A projection towards antiquity, to go back to the origins of the alphabet, to discover the supports of ancient writings, to find Esculape, the divinity of medicine in Greece and his alter ego Eshmoun in Carthage, Dionysos, the god of wine and theater in Athens and its alter ego Bacchus in Rome, see Athenaeum and introduce us to the centuries-old tradition of the olive tree and oil...? To see closely life in the ancient Mediterranean in Carthage, Rome, Athens or Alexandria, we realize that several details of everyday life hardly differed from what we live today.

From the exile of King Farouk in 1952 to the departure of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, this three-part documentary revisits Egypt's contemporary history, focusing on four recurring pillars: the army, civil society, the Muslim Brotherhood and the country's interactions with foreign powers.

Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.

A team of researchers explore the forgotten, hidden history of Nazi concentration camps on British territory, where thousands of innocent Jewish people were sent to die.