At the dawn of the Christian era, Petra, capital of the rich kingdom of the Nabataeans, bordering the deserts of Arabia, Syria and the Negev, was absorbed by the Roman Empire and, after being sacked by the Bedouins, disappeared from the memory of mankind; but its secrets are gradually being revealed thanks to an enormous excavation work.

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse sett...

What started as a simple tomb became over a 2,000 years history the universal seat of Christendom an...
Around four million years ago, ape-like creatures discovered the advantages of walking upright. The ...

From China to Venice, each country preciously kept the secret of its specialty. Industrial espionage...

The untold story of a Jewish baby who was born in the death camp before the liberation and survived....

Between the end of the Second World War and the abolition of the "offence of homosexuality" in 1982,...

On January 20, 1981, 52 members of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran were released after 444 days of captiv...

For eight centuries, between the 9th and 1st century BC, the Etruscans, inhabitants of the Italian p...

The incredible story of Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519), daughter of Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503), deli...

National Geographic - Le Big Bang Des Dinosaure

For decades, pupils at the children's village of Riaumont, in northern France, run by Catholic monks...

On 16 July 1212, a Crusader army made up of Castilians, Aragonese and Navarrese (but also French, En...

Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the...

A cinematic journey to discover, through previously unpublished documents and manuscripts, the world...

In Israel, a joint French-Israeli scientific mission is set to unearth the secrets of the hill of Ki...

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began wit...

A symbol of luxury and adventure, the Orient Express opened a new path between the West and the East...