The exciting story of the splitting of the atom, a scientific breakthrough of incalculable importance that ushered in the nuclear age, has a dark side: the many events in which people were exposed to radiation, both intentionally and by accident.

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

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

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

Before ending World War II, Nazi Germany, realizing it was going to lose the war, planned an escape ...

In a quiet forest, a sign warns of radiation hazard. “Is this the past or the future?” muses the mas...

Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For...

From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story ...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Documentary on the French comedian, actor, humanitarian and legend Coluche.

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

In Aukland Harbour, New Zealand, on July 10th 1985, French navy combat frogmen placed two mines agai...

An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes viol...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

In the bitter winter of 1978, four desperate council members from a small Virginia town hatched a da...

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...