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.

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

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

The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzer...

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...
A short documentary about the construction of the parisian subway in the 50s.

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

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

With 66 million passengers coming through it each year, Roissy-Charles-De-Gaulle airport is Europe's...
Paris, Latin Quarter. A small cinema that is both famous and marginal, Action Christine. The cashi...

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

This documentary traces the capture of serial killer Guy Georges through the tireless work of two wo...

In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other exper...

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

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

Five floors. Forty apartments. Rats, leaks and debts. In Pantin, I live in a building with a danger ...

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