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It is by selling pens by telephone at the turn of the eighties that Johnny Depp, young punk rocker in galley in the City of the Angels, affirms to have begun his "training" of actor, inventing at the end of the wire of the different characters to deceive the boredom. But it is through Alison, his first wife, a make-up artist in Hollywood, that he enters as an anonymous mercenary in the bunkers of the dream factory, passing without being seen in a few second-rate films. The dazzling success of a series for teenagers, "21 Jump Street," catapults him to the top. "Cry-Baby" by John Waters, then "Edward Scissorhands" will make him a movie star.

Made famous by her explosive performance in "Basic Instinct", Sharon Stone is forever etched in the collective unconscious as a sex symbol. But behind this cumbersome image lies an actress with a strong character. As a teenager determined to break away from a modest and violent background, she left rural Pennsylvania at an early age for New York, where she combined odd jobs with art studies. To launch her career, she agreed to play the stereotype of the silly blonde, before landing several major roles that helped her take off, including the legendary "Casino", alongside Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Beyond acting, she invented a public persona full of humor and repartee.

Mit der Entschlüsselung der ägyptischen Hieroglyphen vor rund 200 Jahren löste Jean-François Champollion eines der größten Rätsel der Menschheitsgeschichte. An seiner Seite: sein älterer Bruder Jacques-Joseph. Der jüngst zutage geförderte Briefwechsel zwischen Jean-François Champollion und seinem Bruder eröffnen eine neue Sicht auf seine legendäre Übersetzungsarbeit. Es ist der 14. September 1822, als Jean-François Champollion in einem kleinen Dachzimmer in der Rue Mazarine in Paris den Schlüssel zur Übersetzung der Hieroglyphen in der Hand hält. Mit der Entzifferung der letzten Kartusche hält er endlich den fehlenden Mosaikstein in der Hand. Der Code ist geknackt. Eine jahrtausendealte Zivilisation wird wieder lebendig. Eingang in die Geschichtsbücher hielt freilich nur das Genie, dem es gelang, das Rätsel der ägyptischen Schriftzeichen zu lüften. Dabei verbirgt sich hinter dem Glanzstück in Wirklichkeit ein Duo: Die zwei Brüder Jean-François und Jacques-Joseph glauben gemeinsam an das Unmögliche und erreichen, was Generationen von Forschern und Wissenschaftlern vor ihnen vergeblich versuchten. Während der gesamten Arbeit schrieben sich die beiden fast 700 Briefe, die es Ägyptologen und Ägyptologinnen, Historikern und Historikerinnen ermöglichen, die Bedeutung des Beitrags des älteren der Champollion-Brüder gebührend einzuordnen. Diese reichhaltige, teils unveröffentlichte Korrespondenz erzählt von den damaligen sozialpolitischen Begebenheiten und von der angespannten Lage im Frankreich nach dem Ende des Ersten Kaiserreichs und am Vorabend des "Weißen Terrors" unter Ludwig XVIII. Auch weitere Figuren spielten eine wesentliche Rolle im Leben der Brüder: ihr Förderer, der Mathematiker und Präfekt des Départements Isère, Joseph Fourier, oder auch der englische Gelehrte Thomas Young, den eine lebenslanger Zwist mit Jean-François verband. "Das Geheimnis der Hieroglyphen" erzählt auch von den faszinierenden Erlebnissen Jean-François Champollions, als dieser gegen Ende seines viel zu kurzen Lebens Tempel und Grabanlagen des alten Ägypten vor Ort erforschen darf. Innerhalb weniger Jahre gelang es ihm, den Grundstein für die moderne Ägyptologie zu legen.

Peter Eeckhout travels the world, meeting with other archeologists to reveal recent findings and shed light on the enigmas of History.

An exploration of the creative partnership between Pedro Almodovar and Antonio Banderas who made eight movies together over 40 years.

Follow journalist Alexandra Alevêque and meet people living in the coldest, warmest, highest, most humid, and most densely populated cities in the world. Alexandra will experience life in these extreme cities and live in each one long enough to learn about the locals' way of life and gain insight into humankind's incredible capacity to adapt and find solutions to survive.

In this documentary series, anthropologist Anne-Sylvie Malbrancke introduces us to the amazing rituals of the world in the company of those who practice them.

A number of recent discoveries by archaeologists and researchers have shed new light on the Inca civilization, countering a number of preconceived ideas.

Of all the consequences of climate change, heat is the most deadly. Every year, it kills more people around the world than hurricanes, floods or fires. But heat is an invisible threat, a silent criminal whose victims include workers. Millions of workers around the world are exposed to increasingly extreme temperatures. Yet this risk is insufficiently taken into account by many companies and governments. Scientists, doctors, trade unionists and economists are warning of the growing danger that heat poses to the world of work.

The Russian Church has experienced a resurgence with the help of Vladimir Putin, who believes the church can strengthen Russian solidarity, and can also play a pivotal role in re-enforcing key social and diplomatic views and beliefs.

In summer 2003, when the heatwave hit in Europe, in Switzerland, the glacier below the Schnidejoch pass, released a mysterious object: a piece of a Neolithic quiver.

This investigation lifts the veil on the financial situation of women in Western countries supposedly more advanced than those of the South in terms of rights. A systemic reality of wealth and income gaps between the sexes.

Back on a spectacular move, that of several tens of thousands of works from the Louvre to a new conservation center in Liévin.

On June 26, 1813, Clement de Metternich, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, came to meet Napoleon I at his headquarters in Dresden, capital of the Kingdom of Saxony. The previous winter, for the first time, the Grande Armée had been defeated and decimated during the disastrous Russian campaign. Since then, even if he still dominates Europe, warning signs are multiplying in the huge French Empire: while in the south Spain was lost, in the north Prussia rallied to Russia to wage war against him, with the financial support of the British crown, his longtime enemy. Even though in May he won two successive battles against his opponents, the emperor was worried.

Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie Gayet and actor and director Mathieu Busson ask these questions to twenty French woman filmmakers, who face a camera together for the first time. After over an hour of lively, informal, spontaneous and funny interviews, it becomes obvious that these issues are still problematic and definitely worthy of a documentary. As Mia Hansen-Løve remarks, "In the eyes of the people, a woman's film is always a woman's film, while a man's movie is simply... a movie".