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Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are brought together in the present to re-examine the "Ignace case", about a legendary figure in the history of Guadeloupe who fought against the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte to preserve his freedom. A hero despite himself, Ignace's life and struggle were subsequently consigned to oblivion by his enemies. His treatment has left a bittersweet taste in the mouths of the people of Guadeloupe.

A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.

End of the 19th century in Martinique, Hermansia and Tiquitaque formed a united couple passionate about music. One day, they decide to leave the countryside with difficult living conditions and to go and try their luck in Saint-Pierre.

The struggle of Victor Schoelcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.

In 1462, the first African slaves were settled on the island of Cape Verde brought by the Portuguese colons. It is supposed that they were the first inhabitants of the archipelagos. They carried with them the rhythms and the seeds of what became the BATUQUE: a music form, performed mostly by women, both singers and dancers. The singers, repeat very strong lyrics, sitting in a circle and beating the rhythms with their hands on a piece of cloth between their legs. While one woman performs a very sensual dance with her hips in the middle of the circle. During the colonial era, it has been strongly forbidden but it remained alive in clandestinity. The group Raiz de Tambarina, one of the oldest groups of Batuque on Santiago island, is composed of ordinary people, saleswomen, fish merchants, drivers... Through their every day life and performances we discover Cape Verde today and their passion for the Batuque.

In late 18th-century Martinique, a plantation owner, his irresponsible young aristocratic wife and his beautiful black mistress are drawn into a spiral of violence that reflects all the horror and inhumanity of the perverse relations between masters and slaves.

A monthly show in which Bernard Pivot interviews artists, actors and musicians who were not born in France, but adopted the French culture and language as their own.

April 1988: In New Caledonia (French overseas territory), there's an outburst of violence. The situation rapidly deteriorates. Civil war is looming. Seven persons from radically different backgrounds are to be the mediators in this crisis.

"The sky's the limit" has been shot in the Eastern Caribbean islands - Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis - touching the socio-economic problems of women, heads of large families, often without husbands. They create and face life in spite of great economical hardship, with dignity, courage and enthusiasm, appealing for an international solidarity.

From April till July 1994, in Rwanda, a few Hutu resist to the genocidal terror and decide to shelter and to save Tutsi. Today, in spite of symbolic attempts of recognition, they are always marginalized: traitors for some people and potential killers for others. Joseph, Joséphine, Léonard, Augustin and Marguerite tell how, at the risk of their life, they hid Tutsi and helped them to escape. Their words resound then in the places where they resisted, from the hills of Nyanza to the shores of the lake Kivu, and thus, they make us sensitive to the humanity that they have shown.