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Hindu or Buddhist temples, synagogues, churches or mosques: religions have inspired architectural marvels. Four episodes to discover jewels of Muslim sacred art, masterpieces of Christian architecture, captivating Hindu and Buddhist buildings or even the most beautiful synagogues, witnesses of the history of the Jewish people.
Miniseries adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel. Frédéric Moreau, an eighteen-year-old provincial youth, full of dreams and rather attractive, comes to Paris to study. From 1840 to the evening of the coup d'état in 1851, he learns about the world in a society in turmoil. Along the way, he encounters true love and the contingencies of pleasure, the Revolution and its false apostles, art, the power of money and stupidity, the reversibility of beliefs, brotherly friendship, and the inevitability of betrayal, without ever managing to commit himself to any cause other than that of following the loss of his illusions.
Erik, Ylva and Ani are budding Vikings, confident that they all have what it takes to succeed in the ruthless Vikingskøøl. But the road to graduation is long! To get to the end of this adventure, fortunately they have the necessary stamina, courage and intelligence - but not necessarily all of these qualities at the same time...
Agents Rodriguez and Pinchon try to find Colonel Marron's kidnapped daughter, going to great lengths. This French web series offers adrenaline & testosterone in a comic jacket.
Dragons and Princesses is a 2010 French computer animation television program written, storyboarded and directed by Michel Ocelot and produced at Studio O for Canal+. It is a fairy tale anthology series of ten further 13-minute episodes in the format established in Ciné si. Five of the episodes are edited, with a feature-exclusive sixth, into the 2011 stereoscopic compilation movie Tales of the Night.
This French spy story presented in comic book style was broadcasted on TV on November 1974. It tells the adventures of Hubert de Pomarec (Henri Piégay), alias “Milord”, a retired spy called back into service to foil the abduction of the new army tank AMX 30 by a gang of crooks.
What would it be to be just 15 cm tall?... The answer is in each episode of The Tiniest Man, a formal and serious guy that is only a bit taller than the height of a shoe, that lives in the real world, in a real size house, using mostly normal size objects, ignoring its real condition. Along 53 episodes x 1 minute, The Tiniest Man faces daily tasks, like taking a bus, drinking coffee, going to the cinema, or planning holidays. Of course, everything becomes a big adventure to him. He will deal to solve his scale issues in very unusual ways, stressing the comedy and the wit of the series.
In 1960s Soviet Ukraine, the population lives under KGB surveillance and Soviet propaganda. But a small group of young photographers in the second city of Kharkiv want artistic freedom and risk Soviet censors to create a new photographic language.
The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo is an animated television series based on Victor Hugo's novel Notre Dame de Paris. The show was produced by CinéGroupe, Télé-Images, and Astral Media. It aired in 1996. The series takes place in Paris, 1483. The three main characters are Quasimodo, Esmeralda, and François. They fight villains, stop sinister plots, and escape from traps. They often come face to face with their greatest enemy, Frollo.
Historical seventeenth-century romantic-epic-action-adventure where three women survived a harrowing ocean voyage from France to forcibly marry French ex-patriots on the island of Bourbon (now Réunion).
In the west of Paris, strange murders are committed. The victims are eviscerated before being arranged in a macabre display. While discovering one of the victim, Police commander Eric Lanester loses his sight... as well as the control of the case. But with help of a young woman taxi driver, the cop nevertheless continues his investigation.
This documentary series tells the story of the rise, fall and rebirth of a handful of businessmen, those who control Russian oil and gas, whose brutality, greed and thirst for power know no bounds. Through the fates of these oligarchs, this international investigation deciphers an omnipotent and lawless economic system, shows how it reproduces itself like a tentacled octopus and adapts in order to survive the upheavals of History. By making the colossal financial windfall of black gold available to the master of the Kremlin, the oligarchs, with the complicity of their Western associates, served Putin's great ambition: to infiltrate, corrupt and dominate the West to reconstitute an Empire, that of Holy Russia.
She is Italy’s most powerful woman and the first right-wing populist to lead a European democracy. Tough at home, moderate abroad, she has been firmly in government for three years, a long time in Italian politics. Who is Giorgia Meloni, and how has she been so successful? The answer lies in the tight clan she has been part of since her youth…
A journey in the footsteps of the birds and marine mammals of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands: the populations of the islands on the edge of the Southern Ocean subject to strange fluctuations, closely studied by researchers. In the isolated archipelagos of Crozet and Kerguelen, king penguins, albatrosses, and petrels face winds and storms every year to breed. Elephant seals, fur seals and orcas also live there. But some populations are declining, sometimes abruptly and unexplained. For over sixty years, scientists have been trying to unravel this mystery through their observations and increasingly sophisticated technologies. Their discoveries reveal astonishing behaviors and the threats facing these survivors of the extreme south. A journey into the heart of the wind and waves, where science and exploration intertwine to tell the story of these extraordinary birds and marine mammals.
In April 2014, Paris Zoo opens its doors to the public after two years of huge restoration works. Two years to invent a new kind of zoo. With the complicity of a veterinary and an animal or a group of animals, each episode of the series will tell the story of the arrival of an animal at the zoo or a particular event that marked its reopening, including all the stages and issues that characterize them. Each episode will focus on a central story with an emblematic animal but the other species will also be present in our series through sub-plots.
This show sits at a crossroad of radio and cinema. The viewers are invited to tell their dreams and if they are selected, the authors "oniromancians with camera" put them in scene (hence the dream contest).
Isobel and Nikolaus are now living together for three years. But two new strange neighbors, Hevn and Miley, move in the building. As Maykel comes back with Greg, who mysteriously forgot some parts of his own past, the two neighbors become weirder.
Follow journalist Alexandra Alevêque and meet people living in the coldest, warmest, highest, most humid, and most densely populated cities in the world. Alexandra will experience life in these extreme cities and live in each one long enough to learn about the locals' way of life and gain insight into humankind's incredible capacity to adapt and find solutions to survive.
Featuring the minute-by-minute accounts of the brave soldiers who crossed deep into enemy territory in 1942, recounting these heroic top-secret operations.
1776. Simon Bertiny settles in Hérisson-sur-Allier to practice medicine. He quickly runs into the peasants of the region who refuse the help of a doctor and continue to take care of themselves. When Simon discovers that an epidemic is spreading in the village, he tries to help the villagers fight against the disease.
