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.

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsi...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

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

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

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of seve...

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

Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divor...

E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg's endearing movie released in 1982, achieved the tripl...

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and...

Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are fou...

A fictional documentary on Notre Dame de Paris, produced in 2019.

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

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

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...