The amazing and epic story of how the Paris Opera House, the Palais Garnier, was built from 1852 to 1870, thanks to the decisive impulse of the French Emperor Napoleon III; a story that is also that of the birth of a golden age for orchestral music, opera and ballet; of the rise of the urban bourgeoisie turned social elite; and of a certain mysterious inhabitant of the darkest corners of a legendary place.

Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the comp...

This illuminating documentary examines the aftermath of Princess Diana's tragic death and the tense,...

With 66 million passengers coming through it each year, Roissy-Charles-De-Gaulle airport is Europe's...

An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is cel...

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées...

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...

France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman.

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

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

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of t...

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...