Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themselves dream about a better life while others were predicting the coming of soviet tanks upon the Champs-Élysées. If we gladly remember the turning point of austerity in 83, there were also the wage rises, the fifth week of paid leave, the abolition of death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality, or the advent of independent radio stations. Rare archives and accounts by those who were at the heart of this story give an overview of it and shed light on lesser-known aspects.

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...

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A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

This observational documentary follows the men behind the Super-PACs that persuaded Dr Ben Carson to...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own...

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that...

Let's look back at the 18th presidential vote. The 13,500 ballot boxes were taken to 251 ballot cou...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...

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...

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid ...

The adventure of the minitel, a small cubic terminal with a folding keyboard that began in the 1970s...