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.
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 ...
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the...
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
At the close of Jacques Chirac's life, politician Jean-Louis Debré has wished to make a film to cele...
The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzer...
This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in Fra...
Investigation into the Le Pen family, which has been a prominent presence on the political stage for...
Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life - and death - of Joan of Arc. Joan was an ext...
In 1415 a small English Army consisting mainly of Yeoman English and Welsh archers defeated and dest...
From infinitely small to super-predator, from the earthworm to the whale, from the blade of grass to...
Cyrille, a young gay farmer from Auvergne, has only one friend, a homosexual like him. One day, he g...
A look at the rise of anti-Semitism and assaults against Jews in present-day France.
The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but w...
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...