Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the largest collection of Impressionist art in the world. Project after project, the museum has been transformed to modernize and welcome more visitors, while preserving its historic character. Challenges taken up with each new project.

In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His politica...

The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threa...

Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstra...

Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigat...

The career of Maria Callas was just a bit too early and too brief to receive full and satisfying vid...

With the construction of the Indian planned city of Chandigarh, the Swiss and French architect Le Co...

Bauhaus - The Face of the 20th Century, written and narrated by Frank Whitford, is an art documentar...

For Ted, music and creation are the most important things in life. And around him he has a small gro...

ABBA Silver, ABBA Gold takes Abba from the Swedish heats of the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, where ...

An Okinawan photographer, Mao Ishikawa spent her early 20s working as a barmaid in establishments ca...

Several elderly homosexual men and women speak frankly about their pioneering lives, their fearless ...

Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesse...

Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's...
The architectural plans for Berlin from 1938 are used as an example to illustrate the fascist claim ...