Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the guillotine remains in the collective imagination as the instrument of the death sentence. This machine, developed during the Revolution to render justice more equal, was presented as progress. Over time, opinion has been divided on the subject of the death penalty, the guillotine becoming the object of man's cruelty, a remnant of an archaic way of dispensing justice and fuelling the many debates around the death penalty and its abolition.

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

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By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

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

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

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

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