"L'histoire au scalpel" (History under the Scalpel) is a French documentary series, notably broadcast on France 5 and Histoire TV, in which the forensic doctor and anthropologist Philippe Charlier uses modern scientific methods to investigate historical mysteries. By examining the relics and bodies of historical figures such as Napoleon, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, or Saint Louis, he seeks to elucidate the causes of their death, the diseases they suffered from, or to authenticate objects.

Napoleon's extraordinary rise from obscure military man to hero of the French people convinces him t...

Featuring the minute-by-minute accounts of the brave soldiers who crossed deep into enemy territory ...

A look back at a cruel conflict, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), which changed the political geog...

North Africa, 1954. The Algerian war of independence begins, a traumatic and extremely violent catas...

After World War II, the French colonial empire, which dominated the lives of over 110 million people...

This docudrama revisits one of the most astounding military campaigns and defeats in history, Napole...

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery tells the remarkable story of the entire Corps...

He fired cannon on his own countrymen, wooed the mistress of a formidable opponent and even threaten...

An intimate portrait of the lives of the artists, founders of modern art, who lived in Montmartre fr...