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.
In his own words, the burglar behind the 2010 robbery of the Paris Museum of Modern Art tells how he...
In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other exper...
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...
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...
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
Inspired by an exclusive interview and performance footage of Chavela Vargas shot in 1991 and guided...
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Th...
When asked to make a documentary about her friend’s mother—a Parisian astrologer named Juliane—the f...
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...
In the heart of Paris, an entire palace has disappeared. It was the very first residence of the king...
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside C...
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...