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- A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.
- Paul and Agnes have been going out for quite a while and Agnes is shocked to learn that he'd rather live with two roommates on campus than move in with her. As soon as he meets one of his roommates, Louis-Anault, Paul's behavior changes - he is attracted to Louis without realizing so himself. Agnes, on the other hand, gets quite jealous and offers a bet: Whoever gets to have Louis-Anault first, wins... If she does, Paul will no longer explore his homosexual desires, if he does - she'll walk away. Meanwhile, Paul meets Mecir, a young Arab worker, who shows him there's more to life than elite colleges...
- Terry Jones presents the history of the medieval religious wars in the middle-east known as the Crusades.
- "The Lost Tombs," which will stream on Discovery+ in addition to airing on the Discovery Channel, chronicles the largest excavation in Egypt in 100 years. Dr. Zahi Hawass explores the infamous Valley of the Kings looking for Queen Nefertiti's treasure, among other priceless artifacts from the New Kingdom.
- Tony Robinson examines the claims made in Dan Brown's best-selling novel, "The Da Vinci Code."
- A retelling of the life of Auguste Escoffier, a chef who invented contemporary gastronomy.
- A man remembers, in the desert hall of an hotel facing the Atlantic ocean.
- How, in the 11th century, Normans from Hauteville-la-Guichard in the Cotentin region founded a prosperous monarchy in the heart of the Mediterranean - The little-known story of the golden age of medieval Sicily.
- The name of the famous exotic dancer and courtesan Mata Hari stands for beauty and seduction. She gave herself to the most influential men of her time. In the middle of the First World War, she was executed as a spy for Germany. But one question has not been resolved for a hundred years: was she guilty? The unusual woman remains in people's fantasies to this day.
- 200252mNot Rated7.7 (45)TV MovieThis documentary outlines the ways in which British policies during the First World War have contributed to the instability of the Middle East region today. Through never/before/seen documents and photos, we look at the secret agenda of the British government in WWI and its unfortunate aftermath.
- Claire Weygand, a thirty-year-old young woman who is about to defend her anthropology thesis, unfortunately not only feels bad but even worse and worse with each passing day. The migraine attacks she suffers from indeed keep her from working as hard as she should and in despair she decides to consult Doctor Fish. When the medicine the physician prescribes for her fails, Claire, who can't take it any more, asks him to hospitalize her. In hospital, Claire shares her room with Odette, a young woman who has lost the use of her legs and Eléonore, a frightening old woman...
- A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese.
- Just after the Second World War, he was a bit like the French James Dean, the embodiment of the aspirations of young people of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Forty-five years after his death, the myth of Gérard Philipe is still present.
- Historians have long speculated that thousands of wooden ships plied a Maritime Silk Route from the Middle East to China, braving long distances on white-capped seas, but time and the deep ocean have destroyed any evidence . . . until now. In 1998 German engineer Tilman Walterfang found a shipwreck from the 9th Century blanketed by intact gold, silver and ceramic items. As we uncover clues and reveal the story of the wreck, reenactments transport us back in time to an age of the legendary Sinbad the Sailor, when vicious seas ravaged wooden boats like matchsticks. Through interviews with maritime archaeologists and ceramic experts we bring these characters to life by examining unique items recovered from the wreck and painting a vivid picture of glorious 9th Century Tang China. We reveal where the treasure now lies, in high security storage in Singapore. We show the incredible 60,000 pieces recovered - amid them are unique gold and silver items never before seen. It is a time capsule from a distant seafaring age that will take generations to fully understand. We piece together the last days of the ship's journey before its untimely end in the treacherous straits of Indonesia and reveal one of the ancient world's greatest trading routes and the brave men who sailed it.
- A film about Zionism from the Palestinian perspective.
- Author Henry Lincoln explains the original background to the 'Holy Bloodline' hypothesis, later featured in Dan Brown's bestselling novel "The Da Vinci Code".
- Among the 600 or so compositions of Camille Saint-Saëns, who died on December 16, 1921 in Algiers, the whimsical suite "The Carnival of the Animals" remains his most famous work.
- In the early days of film-biz Alice joined the company of pioneer Gaumont, rose in the ranks and directed more than 400 films. But the company eventually erased her from her credits, she was forgotten, even experts have to rediscover her.
- A whale expert and a cameraman look for bowhead whales in the Arctic.
- Es war eine spektakuläre Entdeckung für die Wissenschaft: Der Papyrus, der unlängst im Depot des Louvre wiedergefunden wurde, scheint eine antike Partitur zu sein. Die Doku begibt sich auf eine Reise zu den geschichtsträchtigen Stätten von Delphi und Pompeji, um längst verloren geglaubte Klangwelten hörbar zu machen.
- In 1880, at the end of his life, Edouard Manet, the painter of 'Olympia' and 'The Luncheon on the Grass', is still both famous (for the scandals he created) and misunderstood. Things change at last when the Galerie de la Vie Moderne gives him the opportunity to show an overview of his whole career, thus allowing visitors to appraise his production in terms of artistic value, not basing themselves on hearsay.
- Boris Vian. A novelist? A songwriter? A playwright? A poet? A trumpet player? A music publishing company producer? A singer? A visual artist? An engineer? Well, this man was all of that, without being a Jack of all trades as he was often accused of being. For what united all those various activities was a way of being, what could be called his "jazz attitude". Vian's passion for this style of music indeed inspired his style in all the categories he covered. It even dictated his relation to life and death.
- 'Ronny and Cindy in All of Us' is a documentary on relationships and the everyday reality of romance nowadays couples lives. Frederic Eger have brought together testimonials around the same relationships challenges the characters Ronny and Cindy go through.
- How does India, where there are retirement homes for sacred cows, handle the mad cow crisis?
- Originating in ancient India in the 4th century, these dreamlike tales were transmitted orally as far as Persia, then translated and enriched by Arab merchants, before undergoing other influences. The French orientalist Antoine Galland (1646-1715) was the first European to translate the mysterious collection, triggering a veritable craze for these tales, with The Thousand and One Nights becoming the most widely read text after the Bible. The hero Aladdin, in particular, enjoyed a particular and enduring popularity. Yet many people are unaware that neither Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Sailor nor Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves were part of the original version. For centuries, scholars have tried in vain to trace the origins of these orphan stories. The fortuitous discovery of a manuscript in the Vatican Apostolic Library, however, has enabled us to trace their authorship in part: these are extracts from the Memoirs of the Syrian Christian Hanna Dyâb, born in Aleppo in 1688, who in 1709, during a trip to Paris, told some of the tales to Antoine Galland.
- The Brussels Music Conservatory Instrument Museum presents their collection of early musical instruments. The origin of the various instrument families are explained, and their evolution from the Middle Ages to the brass instruments of the 19th Century is illustrated both visually and acoustically.
- In 1939, the "Union des Jeunes Filles de France", a French communist movement, sponsored this documentary short constituting a tour de France of farms, factories and workshop where young women work, thus taking charge of their own destiny.