Vive la Revolution! Joan Bakewell on May '68 (2018)
• May 9th, 2018 • 1h 0min
Documentary
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Last Room
Released on: 2011-07-06
Documentary
Made in Japan, Last Room is both fiction and documentary. The occupants of the love-hotels and capsu...
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
Released on: 2022-12-24
Documentary, TV Movie
The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evas...
I'm not unhappy
Released on: 2019-03-15
Documentary
Film student Laïs Decaster trains her camera on her close-knit group of friends to capture daily lif...
Ein Fenster in die Welt
Released on: 1951-01-01
Documentary
Students from nine nations unite on August 7, 1950 at the Franco-German border near Germanshof, tear...
Antoine de Caunes : la vie rêvée d'un enfant du rock
Released on: 2025-11-25
Documentary
Documentary on Antoine de Caunes, a French television presenter, comedian, actor, journalist, writer...
« Je ne suis pas chinetoque » : Histoire du racisme anti-asiatique
Released on: 2024-02-04
Documentary, TV Movie
Journalist Émilie Tran Nguyen invites the viewer to follow her in her quest and discover, at the sam...
A Year in Burgundy
Released on: 2013-01-26
Documentary
This documentary follows seven wine-making families in the Burgundy region of France, delving into t...
School for Danger
Released on: 1947-06-02
War, Documentary
Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to t...
Lynx
Released on: 2021-10-27
Documentary
In the heart of the Jura mountains, a call resounds through the forest. The silhouette of a Eurasian...
And Man Created the Secretary
Released on: 2025-02-25
Documentary, History, TV Movie
The fascinating and little-known story of the secretarial profession, which tells the story of the e...
Correspondance privée sur un lieu public
Released on: 1988-08-06
Documentary, Drama
I started from the assumption that the discourse about the hospital could be the objective pretext f...
Rhin et Danube
Released on: 1948-01-01
War, Documentary
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” ...
Paul Nizon: Der Nagel im Kopf
Released on: 2020-01-22
Documentary
The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzer...
Cyrille
Released on: 2020-02-26
Documentary
Cyrille, a young gay farmer from Auvergne, has only one friend, a homosexual like him. One day, he g...