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- A man whose family were killed during an attempted robbery in a railway station decides to take the law into his own hands when the police do not track down the killers.
- Soviet prison camps were a criminal system of oppression that was widespread and long-lasting. The writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn named it the Gulag Archipelago.
- The story of Operation Overlord, the Allied operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied Western Europe on 6 June 1944 during World War II, and begin the march towards Berlin to defeat Hitler and the Third Reich.
- At the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), the French foreign intelligence service, discretion is the name of the game. However, for the first time in its history, a television crew was allowed to spend several weeks there. Agents from all departments confided in us about their motivations. They recounted how they were transformed from engineers, soldiers, students, linguists and editors into France's "secret agents" through demanding training courses. For the first time, they were also allowed to illustrate their remarks with two types of mission: the fight against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and the hunt for those responsible for a jihadist attack in Mauritania in 2007.
- A Modern Visual Interpretation of Handel's Masterpiece
- Part 1: The young wolf (1932-1981) Jacques Chirac was born in Paris on 29 November 1932. At the age of 18 he became a student at Sciences-Po, the prestigious French institute of political science. He then moved on to the equally renowned École Nationale de l'Administration, before working for Georges Pompidou at Matignon. On 5 March 1967 he was elected as MP for Corrèze and joined the government. A move that marked the beginning of an uninterrupted ministerial career. In 1974, Jacques Chirac torpedoed Jacques Chaban-Delmas' challenge for the French presidency and became prime minister under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. But it rapidly became obvious that it was difficult for the two men to work together. In August1976, he resigned and created a new political party, the RPR, purpose-designed for conquering the Élysée Palace. Part 2: The old lion (1981-2006) Facing President François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac embodied the opposition. In 1986, the right won the parliamentary elections and he became prime minister. After two years of stormy political cohabitation, François Mitterrand was re-elected in 1988. Swallowing his disappointment, Chirac set his political machine rolling once again. During the referendum on the Maastricht Treaty, he campaigned in favor, against the vast majority of his party. In March 1993, Chirac led the opposition to a crushing victory. Édouard Balladur became prime minister. In 1995, Jacques Chirac was elected French president: the fulfillment of thirty years of politics.
- Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular "business trips", Pawel is shocked to discover his father's picture on the cover of a Polish tabloid newspaper. The headline "traitor" is written next to his name. Zygmunt is a genuine hero of the struggle against totalitarianism and a recognized member of the "Solidarnosc" labor movement of the 80s. But now, Zygmunt is suddenly accused by the paper of having acted as a secret informer called THE MOLE by the communist regime.
- Two couples, Eva and Edy and Martin and Charlotte are separated by a very different social condition. The first are rich bourgeois, the second are workers.
- The work, life and activism of one of the most multi-talented artists of his times: Charles Chaplin. An extensive film entirely nourished by anthology scenes from his masterpieces and rare archive footage of the most joyful and surprising.
- Paul Verhoeven, a Dutch filmmaker for whom sex, violence and religion are "the three most important elements on Earth", likes to press where it hurts. Born in 1938, he grew up in The Hague under the German occupation, in the fury of bombings and summary executions. Inspired by comics and the New Wave, atheist but passionate about the historical figure of Jesus, Paul Verhoeven lets his darker side and his complexity shine through his characters, and pushes them to transgression. In Hollywood, he is pampered and has had a string of successes ("Robocop", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct") without giving up his obsessions. Michael Douglas and Isabelle Huppert, the heroine of his latest feature film, "Elle", confide in us.
- Pursued by the police, a man take refuge using menace in the appartment of a woman. Strangely, she didn't denounce him when she got the opportunity. Puzzled, he try to understand her secrets.
- Mixing history, romanticism and passion for the arts, this film tells the saga of the Morozov brothers, Russian textile industrialists. Mikhail and Ivan Morozov assembled one of the most remarkable collections of French art in the world.
- The communist ideology has shaped the history of the century that is ending. Using archival footage from around the world, 'The Faith of the Century' tackles the mystery of a totalitarian machine that has seduced a large part of humanity.
- In June 1944, Georges Guingouin, a young military activist of the Communist Party led the largest partisan unit in Limousin, France, with no fewer than 20,000 men.
- An autobiography of William Klein, Parisian-based American photographer which strings together his abstract paintings, mould-breaking reportage, inventive fashion photos and excerpts from his feature films.
- Born in 1906 in Paris, Marcel Carné beat the pavement of the City of Light and became passionate about cinema. In 1928, Jacques Feyder took him under his wing, then Marcel Carné became independent in 1936 by signing Jenny, a melodrama that marked the birth of his tandem with Jacques Prévert. Drôle de drame, Le Quai des brumes, Le jour se lève...: the words of the rebellious poet ("T'as d'beaux yeux, tu sais") and the virtuosity of the director, influenced by Expressionism, combine to forge a social and aesthetic revolution: poetic realism. In the France of the Popular Front, the little people, magnified by the glibness of a Gabin or an Arletty, are the heroes of great films. Through the life and career of Marcel Carné, using film excerpts and archives (including touching interviews with the director), François Aymé weaves a fascinating portrait of a hypersensitive man who had to deal with his homosexuality and who, despite his brilliance, was long relegated to the shadow of his actors and Prévert, who were credited with their greatest success.
- Freshly landed in the political service of France 2, Astrid Mezmorian must follow the youngest presidential candidate for his election campaign baptism. Two months of marathon for two novices.
- In 1992, the survivors from 30 years of war in Cambodia were repatriated, among the 380,000 refugees, in the camps at the Thai border, to later be shifted to a village constructed for them by the UN. The film is a tribute to their stories.
- The tobacco industry's conspiratorial efforts to market their products in the face of public health facts and public opposition.
- Yves Montand died on 9 November 1991, twenty years ago. The life of the artist is made up of many intertwined lives: the rise of Ivo Livi, a small Italian immigrant who became an international star, the extraordinary career in the music hall, the dozens of roles on the big screen, the meeting with women who are themselves myths: Edith Piaf, Simone Signoret or Marilyn Monroe, the commitment, finally, in the political fights of the 20th century. To revisit Montand's life is to make several journeys: from the hills of his native Tuscany to the vaults of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, from the Alcazar in Marseille to the Hollywood studios, from the cabarets of the Occupation to the Olympia, from the Red Square to the White House.