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A biographical film about the acclaimed American humourist and author.

La escuela de arte y diseño Bauhaus se fundó hace 100 años. A través de su historia, exploramos la pregunta de cómo la arquitectura puede mejor la vida en comunidad y la participación en el día a día.

Finding the orgin of words

"I Build the Tower" is the true story of the life and work of Sam Rodia, the Italian immigrant who built the world-famous Watts Towers on a residential lot in South Central Los Angeles. These mosaic-covered spires of reinforced cement rising to almost one hundred feet were once scheduled for demolition by the City Building Department. The towers survived to become a symbol of the community in which they stand and they are now recognized throughout the world as a unique embodiment of the structural principles found in nature.

By launching its fleet against the Chinese junks in 1889, the British Empire declared one of the first wars motivated solely by economic interests. Deploring a trade balance largely in deficit with China, the United Kingdom wants to sell him its stocks of opium by force. Faced with resistance from the Qing Empire, the British went on the offensive in the name of free trade, whose pacificating virtues they were convinced of. Since this exemplary history of ambiguous relations between states, from cooperation to fierce competition, trade wars have been repeated, increasingly sophisticated but not always less bloody. The advent of the industrial revolution, liberalism and then globalization have multiplied the sources of conflict.

In 1880, at the end of his life, Edouard Manet, the painter of 'Olympia' and 'The Luncheon on the Grass', is still both famous (for the scandals he created) and misunderstood. Things change at last when the Galerie de la Vie Moderne gives him the opportunity to show an overview of his whole career, thus allowing visitors to appraise his production in terms of artistic value, not basing themselves on hearsay.

The impact of the Gospels after the First Revolt; Christianity spreads and conversion takes place in the Roman Empire in the second and third centuries.

Anita Rani begins her voyage along the Ganges, taking a close look at Sagar Island, the history of the Bengal tiger, and the city of Kolkata.

Alice Roberts explores Glasgow's age of steam, from lethal diseases and industrial injury to genteel tea rooms, football at Celtic Park, and the beautiful Loch Katrine.

Anita learns about the role elephants played in helping build the Indian railway, the Taj Mahal, and the place where the Beatles came to find enlightenment.

Lucy debunks myths regarding the Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire - India. From the 'black hole of Calcutta' to the Indian 'mutiny', she reveals how this chapter of British history is another carefully edited narrative full of fibs.