In 1968 Joan Bakewell was one of the few female TV presenters, fronting the BBC's Late Night Line-Up and addressing daily the most pressing issues of the time. In this film she looks back at the events that led to what for many became the defining event of that extraordinarily turbulent year - the protests in France in May. While the rest of the world was in turmoil, with the Vietnam War causing increasing dissent, the Civil Rights movement growing in intensity and young people finding new ways of expressing themselves, as 1968 began it seemed to France's president, General de Gaulle, that his country was immune to the kind of protest sweeping the rest of the world.

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films ...

Madame Simone Renaud witnessed the liberation of France on June 6, 1944 from a very unique viewpoint...

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema at...

Christian Dior, the creator of the New Look, died 60 years ago, on October 23, 1957. Frédéric Mitter...
I started from the assumption that the discourse about the hospital could be the objective pretext f...

Published in Paris in 1954, Story of O was an immediate bestseller and literary scandal: an elegantl...

Pierre Carles questions the privatization of the leading French televisions channel : is it not scan...

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...

France is at the heart of Madonna's life. She is inspired by French culture and its values and has s...

This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in Fra...

May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” suppose...

Photographer and make-up artist François Nars reveals his visually stunning inner world in this feat...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes le...