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Black Diamond uncovers the mechanisms of the lucrative international trade of hundreds of young African players with their heads full of dreams who are ready for tremendous sacrifices to become the new soccer superstar. Tricked by crooked agents who attract them with false promises of professional careers in Europe or the Middle-East, fenced in dubious -football academies- where they receive no education, these children are the victims of a genuine traffic in which they are treated like commodities. A flagrant violation of human rights inscribed in the system of globalized football.

A look back at years of largely unpunished violence committed from 1865 to the present day by the Ku Klux Klan, the "oldest terrorist group in the United States".

A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age. It recaptures the time and place of New York in the 30's and 40s as well as plays with the codes and references of the genre.

A documentary about the impact of the James Bond film character on actor Sean Connery's career and in film history.

From 1945 until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, citizens of Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia tell their stories of how their countries were occupied and transformed into communist states.

This striking series travels across Europe to reveal the most beautiful, interesting, unusual and authentic places. Each 52-minute-episode visits a new destination and is comprised of ten distinguishable parts including secret treasures - a hidden temple, a forbidden lake; natural treasures - a beautiful natural park, an impressive cave; historical treasures - a cathedral, ancient ruins; cultural treasures - craft and traditions; and a portrait - a horse breeder, a folk singer. The focus is on discovering treasures that tell fascinating stories about a country's cultural heritage and its inhabitants.

A documentary which explores the remarkable parallels between the careers of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill, as well as their personal rivalry and animosity.

In 1942, more than 8,000 Jews were arrested on 16 and 17 July and sent to the Vélodrome d'Hiver sports center in the 15th district, a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower, before being deported. The expression "Vel d'Hiv round-up" has become part of our collective memory, to the point of becoming the main memorial reference point for France during the dark years. Based on research carried out in unpublished or rarely explored archives, this film retraces the history of this roundup as experienced by hunted Jews and police trackers, from its planning in the Vichy offices to its hour-by-hour unfolding in the streets of Paris.

An intimate portrait of the life, times and struggles of one of the most iconic actors in the history of cinema.

Barbra Streisand's rise to stardom and the remarkable achievements of her early career are explored.

Against the background of hostage-taking, murderous attacks in Paris, it is the story of a carefree little girl, brutally confronted with death threats, bodyguards, fear - to the point of drama final, one winter evening 1990.

A French TV documentary gives an updated look at the maverick filmmaker, who built his own independent studio, managed to get some big stars but often clashed with them, he was in a way like one of those ancient Japanese warriors.

At the end of the Second World War, the Iron Curtain closed over Eastern Europe. The USSR imposed its model by force, with Stalin at its head. Never-before-seen accounts from those who lived through this forced Sovietisation from the inside and archive footage retrace the stages of this radical upheaval right up to the building of the Berlin Wall in August 1961.

Survivors testify how, after coming to power in 1933, Hitler systematically eliminated all political opposition in Germany and then proceeded to eliminate the Jewish community and everyone else who in any way questioned the Nazi regime.

January 1953: Stalin organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby Jewish doctors are charged with conspiring to murder high dignitaries of the USSR. Through newly found archive pictures and interviews (translations in the closed captions), this documentary unveils the harsh, totalitarian methods of the Soviet Regime.

Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret - This is the story of a bunch of friends. Comedian buddies. Actors who dreamed of the Conservatory and the National Theater of Paris. The theater was their ideal, cinema will be their paradise. Their friend Jean-Paul Belmondo, the relaxed Parisian, who failed the entrance exam, will make sparks fly. Rochefort, Marielle and Noiret, the three provincials, will climb the steps of recognition one by one. From the little cabarets on the Left Bank to the TV shows of the Buttes-Chaumont pioneers. From the second roles to the first and from the B movies to the classics.

Following his parents' death, Aurélien, a writer in his thirties, returns to Brittany to sell the family home. More than a decade earlier he fled this bourgeois lifestyle, which he describes candidly in his books. A journey back to his roots which proves destabilizing in many ways.

The actress Isabelle Huppert has chosen twenty film extracts to compose this mosaic (self) portrait, interwoven with archives and commented by herself.

This docudrama traces the career of Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Vetrov, a KGB agent known as "Farewell" by his western handlers, who delivered a wealth of scientific and military secrets including the list of KGB agents to France after he developed a hatred of his superiors in the KGB following his recall to Moscow for his excessive drinking.

Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved", published in 1987, explores the great taboo of slavery in the United States. Presentation of a masterpiece and its author.