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.

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

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

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...

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

A documentary short by Barbara Bingley-Verseman about the creation of a monumental outdoor mural by ...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

A look at the life of Toty Rodríguez: An actress who made her career in France during the 60s, a wel...

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of Fra...

In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin se...

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau...

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

In this documentary about the exile of two famous French actors in Argentina during and after World ...
Documentary about the Parisian locations for the film by Louis Malle.

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talen...

The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacob...

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...

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