Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 179
- School headmaster Kevin McArevey tries to change the fortunes of an inner-city Irish community plagued by urban decay, sectarian aggression, poverty and drugs.
- 70 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, our eight-part film about the destruction of Europe's Jews sets out to explore a story whose roots go back to before the start of the 20th century, and which is still playing out today.
- In the summer of 1945, the American authorities instructed two young soldiers, Budd and Stuart Schulberg, to gather visual evidence attesting to Nazi crimes, with a view to the trial against twenty-four dignitaries of the Third Reich which was preparing for Nuremberg. The sons of an eminent producer, already experienced in the cinema business, they must (under the aegis of filmmaker John Ford, head of the Office of Strategic Services, OSS) support the accusation of chief prosecutor Robert Jackson. In four months of high-risk investigation across devastated Europe, the Schulbergs manage to save hundreds of hours of footage, much of it taken by the Nazis, from destruction. Their editing team then worked tirelessly to complete before the opening of the trial on November 21, 1945, films exposing the atrocities perpetrated after Hitler's seizure of power, from the first pogroms to the concentration camp system, and their premeditated nature. Without the help of his brother, who has resumed his work as a screenwriter in the United States, Stuart Schulberg is then responsible, alongside the Soviet Roman Karmen, for filming the main stages of the procedure, a first in the history of justice. . They are only allowed to shoot thirty-five hours of rushes over more than ten months of hearings, but the sound recordings of the entire proceedings will allow Stuart to produce Nuremberg: its Lesson for Today, a documentary that the American authorities, facing to Cold War emergencies, finally decide to bury in 1948.
- Revisits the two rounds of the 2007 French presidential election (April 22 and May 6, 2007), where Conservative leader Nicolas Sarkozy won a clear victory over his Socialist opponent, Ségolène Royal. Faced with the activist, the journalist, the political figure and the gigantic media device set up for the occasion, the audience is taken on board without real or comprehensive explanations. Strangely, the chaos seems organized. Just like when we are considering the range of 'unplanned' events that get media exposure, so much so that we wonder if they really are being planned. Is all this period of unrest visibly set in motion by social activists, agitators, ordinary people, politicians, publicity agents?
- A woman wages an uphill struggle to put her life back together in this neo-realist drama from France. Louise is a divorcee in her early fifties who is having a hard time making ends meet on her own, she works as a cleaning woman and lives in her car but raising enough money for an apartment always seems to be just out of her reach.
- Inspired by real events. Where is the missing father Albino Rodrigue, who was suppose to pickup his daughter, but never did?
- Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one of the biggest hospitals in Paris. Constantly under severe stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts, employees fight each other for resources. Meanwhile the management imposes ever more stringent efficiency and profitability targets. All over Europe burnout has reached epidemic proportions among employees in the public and private sectors. Will we end up killing ourselves? Or will we be able to find meaning and joy at work?
- Russian hints that the country could hand over America's most wanted whistle blower as a favor to Donald Trump place Edward Snowden in even greater danger than before. A secret meeting between global freedom and civil rights campaigners Snowden, Birgitta Jonsdottir and Larry Lessig turns into a freewheeling discussion about the future of democracy. Birgitta Jonsdottir has been a member of Iceland's parliament since 2009. All her actions have been aimed at giving the people back their voice and opening up the parliamentary process and political decision-making. Larry Lessig is a Harvard law professor. He tirelessly denounces the influence of money in US politics and the way establishment elites collude to support each other against the public interest. The three activists agreed to be filmed during an extraordinary conversation about their ongoing struggles, the last bastions of democracy and the opportunities and choices still left to us. The questions they ask are fundamental. Can democracy be saved? What unites us? How can you tell when democracy has failed?
- Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America versus the public battle for truth and democracy.
- A true spy story about the only American citizen who dared stand up to the FBI in an attempt to expose the truth on some specific yet hidden aspects of today's War on Terror and give the American people the protection and security the U.S. government has failed to provide.
- The story of the terrible tragedy of Vincent Lambert, who lived in a vegetative state for 11 years.
- From radical turntablism (Otomo Yoshihide) to laptop music innovation (Numb), via classic instrument hijacking (Sakamoto Hiromichi), Tokyo's avant-garde music scene is internationally known for its boldness.
- In the early days of the system, that came to be known as Capitalism, political economists of all stripes struggled to understand the laws that govern the flow of capital - and of Capitalism's related activities. As a result, a critical assessment and sketchy understanding of how Capitalism worked began to emerge. But in recent times, as the system, and the world, has grown a hundredfold more complex we have veered away from the pursuit of any clear, critical understanding of the phenomenon. Economic departments in most major universities in the English-speaking world have abolished courses in the history of Economic and political economy. We are left with incomprehensible mathematical models whose relevance to the real world is hotly disputed. We were told very little about Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus yet their names have been used to give legitimacy to contemporary economic activities. To further obscure the issues, this « econo speak » has been supplemented by endless superficial news reports, pundits discussions and analysis filled with clichés and superficial information. Our series intends to puncture this veil of opacity to go beyond the current « econo- speak » to re examine the ideas which have been used in the past 40 to reshape the world. Is today's economic crisis a temporary blimp on the road to progress or a symptom of a deeper crisis of the system as a whole? Can the big ideas of the at the heart of our Economic system help us understand today's economic crisis, or obscure it? And more importantly - can they show us a way out?
- A feminist legend, a May 68 activist, a famous playwright and poet, Hélène Cixous is the vehicle of this road movie. With friends like the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the artist Adel Abdessemed, with Ariane Mnouchkine and her cosmopolitan theatre company, Cixous explores the wounds our time and allows us to ear the cry of literature. The history of dozens of members of her German-Jewish family who were assassinated in the Death Camps, and the trauma of the wars of decolonization are never far, for this major figure who was born in Algeria shortly before the start of the Second World War.
- A little girl with beautiful hair. She loves movies and wants to become an actress. She is being told about the plot of a movie that she is going to play: "a friend is jealous about her hair and cuts it when she is asleep". The girl rejects playing the role. Then she is then told that she can play the jealous girl but she again rejects the role.
- Present-day Kosovo. The time for democracy and human rights has come. Over the last ten years Kosovo has become a laboratory, a place where you can learn how to rebuild a nation out of a wasteland. The international community has sent an armada of Human Rights experts to change the country into a democracy worthy of joining Europe. Through the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), Melina, Norbert and Pol have come from France, Holland and Spain to work in this small country. They arrive with their enthusiasm, determination, preconceived ideas and individual emotional baggage. Implementing democracy is not an easy task, but they've been trained for the job. How do you guide without imposing? Educate, without oppressing? We follow our protagonists with humor and compassion as they strive to succeed, torn between their ideals and on the ground realities.
- In Georgia a man in his 40s, Levan, is waiting in a clinic for an MRI examination. He needs to find out what's causing the pain in his shoulder. He's nervous. By the time he leaves the hospital he's not the same man. His anxiety quickly spreads to his wife and well-meaning friends. The family courtyard becomes the scene of an informal advisory council, where everybody suggests magical cures and must-see specialists. Soon Levan's savings are gone. He's scared of losing his job, his heath and his wife, who has started to come home later and later. But suddenly, out of nowhere - a serendipitous event occurs.
- The story of the Hakoah Vienna Jewish womens swim team of the 1930s, their forced separation, and their reunion decades later.
- Recounts the career of Romy Schneider with passion and dedication.
- A look at the Russian invasion of South Ossetia in 2008.
- Powerful rivers flow between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic, known as gaves. Human activity is altering the water cycle and its biodiversity. Men and women look curiously and lovingly at this fascinating world of beauty and disaster.
- In 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's fresco on the Soviet camps sparked a violent awakening to the reality of the regime. Through archives and interviews, we take a fascinating look back at the destiny of this monumental work, which remains a burning issue in Putin's Russia.
- A minister commits suicide at the Élysée palace. To contain the impact on public opinion and prevent the case from becoming a national scandal, the French president turns to Claire Ferran, a specialist in crisis communication. Little by little, she begins to make disturbing discoveries...
- Zylberman tells the story of a building in rue Saint-Maur during the German occupation of Paris through the memories of those who lived there and survived the war.
- Short biography of the great actress, Julie Andrews. From her childhood in London to her later roles.
- In einem nördlichen Stadtteil von Belfast, einer katholischen Enklave, in der die Arbeiterklasse seit Generationen von Armut, Drogen und Schusswaffen heimgesucht wird, stellt uns diese Doku die außergewöhnliche Arbeit eines Schulleiters vor. Unter Berufung auf die Weisheit alter Philosophen, zeigt er den Kindern die Vorteile des Zuhörens, der Toleranz und des kritischen Denkens. Schauplatz des Dokumentarfilms, den ARTE im Rahmen der Reihe "MenschenLeben" zeigt, ist der Stadtteil Ardoyne im Norden von Belfast. Die katholische Grundschule "Holy Cross" liegt dort mitten in einer Arbeitersiedlung und trägt noch die Spuren vergangener Konflikte. Die politische Sackgasse zwischen Republikanern und Unionisten liegt unter anderem darin begründet, dass es mit der Entstehung einer wahren Gemeinschaft in der Region viel zu schleppend vorangeht. Kriminalität und Drogensucht breiten sich aus, und die allgemeine Verzweiflung schlägt sich in der europaweit höchsten Selbstmordrate bei jungen Männern nieder. Um dies zu ändern, hat der engagierte Schuldirektor Kevin McArevey eine Lehrmethode entwickelt, mit der er den Kindern Hoffnung vermitteln will. McArevey ist um die 50 Jahre alt und wirkt mit seinem kahlen Kopf eher hart. In seinem Büro hängen Elvis-Fotos neben Papst-Porträts. Von den Eltern seiner Schüler über Drogendealer und republikanische Dissidenten bis zur Polizei kennt ihn hier jeder. Kevin McArevey will die Resilienz seiner Schüler stärken und sie lehren, ihre Emotionen zu beherrschen. Er lenkt und leitet sie in Diskussionen über Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft und ermutigt sie, alles infrage zu stellen, sogar die Standpunkte ihrer eigenen Eltern. Dabei nimmt er Bezug auf die Weisheit der altgriechischen Philosophen. McArevey und sein Team stehen vor schier unüberwindlichen Hindernissen: Gewalt zwischen verschiedenen Gruppierungen, Resignation in der Bevölkerung, Kinder mit schweren Verhaltensstörungen - selbst der beste Lehrer müsste hier eigentlich an seine Grenzen stoßen. Doch in McAreveys Schule wird das Unmögliche möglich: Die Kinder sind bereit, ihren Kurs zu ändern, und sehen Perspektiven für ihre Zukunft.
- Roxana is a young Romanian nanny looking after 8-year-old Georges, the son of David and Elizabeth. David's a financier at the European Bank of Strasbourg. Working on a project for a motorway across Romania, David asks Roxana for some help.
- A trove of songs from the year 1967 revisited by contemporary and emerging artists.
- Laetitia, a Thai boxing champion, gifted but lazy, is preparing for her next fight - only, she's 12 kilos overweight.
- They have no roots, no seeds, no flowers, but mosses show immense survival capacities and can suspend their biological activity for long periods. Today, researchers are exploring the exceptional resistance of these archaic organisms. British ecologists have even resurrected a "zombie" moss that has been trapped in the permafrost for 1,500 years. Associated with decay and disliked in Europe, mosses are deified in Japan. With 25,000 species worldwide, bryophytes - their scientific name - are the seat of real ecosystems, and can develop in inhospitable landscapes, through an extravagant reproduction cycle.
- Yves Montand would have been 100-years-old in 2021. A journey through the 20th century by the son of an Italian immigrant who reached the peak of his art and popularity. The song, the cinema, the commitments, a film all in archives.
- Documentary in which 8 Parisian adolescents with a silver-spoon upbringing are followed over the course of 15 years.
- This is a somnambulists' tale. There's Françoise, who goes back to Rennes to teach History of Art at the university, many years after studying there.
- Actresses' hairstyle in movies always carries a strong aesthetic statement associated with erotic, social, and historical meanings. In a bold and unexpected way, the film revisits this ultimate symbol of femininity in international cinema.
- The French Minister for Agriculture was filmed for nine months, while he was negotiating in Brussels what would be the future of the European agriculture. His purpose is to save the small french farms -fifteen thousands of them disappear each year. Such filmings have never happened before. Not only because of the unseen access to the intimate work of a politician, but also because of the special access to the Council of Ministers in Brussels.
- The first "user generated film", edited from fictional and real video-blogs. A unique experience initiated on the Internet, a mockumentary that paints a generational portrait of young French people in their twenties.
- Consists of two episodes of Die Nacht/La Nuit (2002) edited together as a full-length documentary film: a jigsaw approach to urban outings in Tel Aviv in Spring featuring many local musicians including Avishai Cohen, Aviv Geffen, Mati Caspi, etc.
- Discovered in 1951 by Colette, who chose her to play her Gigi on Broadway, Audrey Hepburn immediately imposed her sparkling smile and her slender figure. From "Sabrina" in 1954 to "Diamants on the sofa" in 1961, her unequaled charm, between elegance, lightness and melancholy makes her an icon. This portrait proposed by Emmanuelle Franc lifts the veil on the cracks of the actress, which have shaped her incomparable style. From the abandonment of her father when she was only 6 years old to her forced renunciation of a dancing career, through her years of poverty and deprivation during the Second World War, which permanently damaged her health, the Audrey Hepburn's youth was marked by hardships.
- From the beginning of his film career, at the dawn of the 1940s, John Huston had only one idea: to preserve his freedom. If he knew how to free himself from Hollywood, his tour de force was to obtain from the big studios the stars he wanted and especially the colossal budgets he needed to shoot in natural settings, preferably wild ones. From "The Maltese Falcon" to "People of Dublin", directed shortly before his death in 1987, including "The Odyssey of the African Queen", "The Night of the Iguana", "Moby Dick", "The Misfits" and "Under the Volcano", the filmmaker made a specialty of bringing to the screen great literary works that were deemed unsuitable.
- A look at the work of Japanese woodblock printing artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849).