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.
Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, h...
May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to tak...
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...
The Concorde remains a legend of the sky. In both looks and performance, it was incomparable, and th...
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsi...
The history of arguably the most famous shop in the world, which has been based on Brompton Road in ...
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...
An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based sto...
A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the gui...
The 70th anniversary of the birth of El Santo and the wrestling debut of his son mark the starting p...
Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a poli...
More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...
A look back at "La Cage aux Folles", which ran non-stop for five years, from February 1973, on the s...
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the de...