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- A renowned painter and a free-thinker, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun is still considered ahead of her time. Follow the artist's adventures over the course of her nearly 90-year life in this captivating docudrama.
- 1st part: In February 1864, everyone who was anyone in Paris crowded the Drouot auction house for the sale of the contents of Eugène Delacroix's studio. Amongst the works sold were the seven sketch bookings that illustrated the artist's journey to Morocco in 1832 as part of a French diplomatic mission - 2nd part: Eugène Delacroix returned from his travels in Morocco with over 1,000 drawings that later inspired some of his most emblematic paintings. He continued to paint the Orient until the end of his life, until that very last canvas "Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains" completed a few days before his death.
- Nestled between Bologna and the Adriatic coast, Predappio, with its 6,000 inhabitants, is not a town in Emilia Romagna like any other. Benito Mussolini was born here in 1883 and is buried here. Everything here recalls the presence of the Duce, who modified the structure of the streets, transformed his childhood home into a town hall and had a family crypt built in the old cemetery for his eternal rest. During his ten years as mayor, the left-wing mayor Giorgio Frassineti, who was installed in the same office occupied by the organizer of the "March on Rome" in 1922, fought to convert the old Casa del fascio, which once housed the offices of the dictator's party, into a museum dedicated to the crimes of fascism.
- January 15, 2017 will go down in the annals of history. "Big Daddy Xi "has emerged from the shadows. We are in Davos, the world's largest economic summit. This year, the American chair is empty. The master of ceremonies is Xi Jinping, president of China for the past four years. The leader of the largest communist country on the planet is giving lessons in liberalism to the whole world. The world is discovering the new face of China. Never before had a Chinese leader imposed himself on the international scene. Xi Jinping is taking a stand on all sensitive issues and is committed: nuclear crisis with North Korea, deterrence in the China Sea, COP 21.
- Lana Turner was one of Hollywood's most famous actresses. With the blurring between her real life and the parts she played on the screen, she was the best actress of Hollywood's melodramas both in town as on the sound stage.
- One of the most widely read writers in the world, Milan Kundera has made the novel his home. However, he began by exploring other artistic fields: the piano and poetry, through which he exercised his pen as a young singer of the communist ideal. As a professor at the Prague Film Academy, Milan Kundera trained the future leaders of the Czechoslovak New Wave (Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel, Vera Chytilova) and took part in the creative freedom of the 1960s. In 1967, his first novel, "The Joke", was published. It tells the story of the broken destiny of a communist student sentenced to hard labor for an unfortunate joke. But in August 1968, the Soviet tanks crush the "Prague Spring": the writer is fired, banned from publishing and monitored. It is in France that he finds refuge.
- 'Nosferatu' is widely considered a horror masterpiece but most of Murnau's oeuvre remains in the shadows, despite being praised by colleagues like Charlie Chaplin and Fritz Lang. The documentary sheds new light on Murnau's career and life.
- The exploitation career of maverick producer Roger Corman, covering his heyday as a director touching upon subjects that major studios wouldn't allow that appealed mainly to youth audiences at their local drive-ins.
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- From "Quai des Brumes" to "Goupi Mains Rouges", Robert Le Vigan (1900-1972) is one of the emblematic supporting actors of French cinema. Poetic, tortured, impossible to categorise, the actor was also Céline's best friend and a Nazi collaborator during German occupation. We look back over his career.
- This mini-series aims to help children discover in a fun way the foundations, resemblances and differences of the five main religions in the world: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.
- Dietrich spent the last 15 years of her life in seclusion in her Paris apartment. Friends and family discuss how she kept the legend intact.
- Twenty-third sovereign of the Alawite dynasty established in Morocco since the seventeenth century, Mohammed VI took over from his father Hassan II in 1999, and from the moment of his coronation, he positioned himself as a "king of the poor", close to the people. Naturally shy, he prefers to act rather than speak, defining a modern style of governance that has earned him great popularity from the start. Married to a young computer engineer, he asserted a policy of liberalization of morals and even made a critical review of the period of repression led by his father during the years of lead. However, he faces opposition from conservatives, which leads to the election of the Islamist PJD (Party of Justice and Development) as head of government, following the Arab Spring of 2011.
- A captivating and vertiginous documentary on the relations between man and machines, in the heart of the laboratories where the humanoids of tomorrow are invented. We are on the eve of a revolution, that of the humanoids. These robots with a human face are more and more efficient: they walk, see, hear, speak - They look like two drops of water, are ready to enter our lives, our homes, and are even capable of learn about our own condition. Roboticists believe that, in ten years, androids will be part of our daily lives as well as individual computers. Are we ready?
- Part 1: A look back at ten years in the life of the French writer Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). From financial straits to wealth, from glory to bankruptcy, the decade from 1842 to 1852 summarises his extravagant life filled with twists and turns, characterised by a compulsive creativity and extraordinary appetite for life. Part 2: We follow Alexandre Dumas as he travels throughout Europe, from Florence to Montecristo, from Marseille to Saint-Germain-en-Laye and from Paris to Brussels. We meet the father of "The Three Musketeers" who, with his remarkable sense for action, took his inspiration from his own story to breathe life into his characters.
- 2012– 55m7.0 (5)TV EpisodeA top glamour girl in the 1940's, and the ultimate femme fatale, the "Love Goddess" Rita Hayworth went from a dancer in Brooklyn to Columbia Pictures' biggest star, sharing the screen with Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, and Fred Astaire. As she tragically lost her memory to Alzheimer's disease, she could not escape the systematic manipulation she was forced to endure from the Hollywood elite.
- The conflict in Syria, which combines civil war, jihadism, regional and international war, began ten years ago. The stakes of this conflict, the most important of the 21st century and the most brutal, could be summed up as follows: the maintenance in power of Bashar El Assad. Five years after "Bashar, me or chaos", Antoine Vitkine returns to the course of the 54-year-old dictator and the way he conducts his war to maintain power. He also reveals the behind-the-scenes geopolitical battle that Syria has been the object of since 2011.
- How does one of the most brutal dictators, an outcast, put under embargoby the UN in 1992 after the UTA DC 10 and Lockerbie attacks, manage, a decade later, to mingle with heads of state and European and American leaders in Tripoli, Paris or New York? With the accounts of front lineactors, such as Tony Blair and Condoleezza Rice, this film takes a look at 40 years of relations between Gaddafi and the West. It shows how, during all these years, Gaddafi used the West and the West used its "best enemy".
- Filmmaker Ken Dornstein was 19 years old when his brothers plane was bombed down over Lockerbie, Scotland. 25 years after that a Libyan man was convicted of the terror plot that left over 270 people dead. He was sentenced to life in prison but was released soon after.
- 2016– 1h 22m6.5 (15)TV EpisodeRich in exceptional testimonies, this documentary is both a portrait of Bashar al-Assad and an account of the relations that the West has with him, from his arrival in power to the conflict that is ravaging Syria today. The terrorism that strikes us, the refugee crisis, the stability of the Middle East, our relations with Russia: all of this depends on him. "Me or chaos", Bashar al-Assad repeats to justify to the world the bloody takeover of his country. In order to keep power, he initiated a terrible civil war responsible for the death of 300,000 Syrians, drove 3 million of them into exile, and allowed tens of thousands of people to be tortured in his jails.