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...

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

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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...

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...

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

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...

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

The story about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during co...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...

Paul Wellstone was the charismatic Minnesota progressive who used grassroots organizing to get elect...