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The crazy rise and fall of Jacques Tati, comedy genius, actor, director and athlete of laughter. Or how the inventor of the mythical Mr. Hulot made France laugh, then the world, flying from success to success, rising higher and higher, until he came a little too close to the sun.

An old aztec statue brought back from Mexico to France by a transvestite and an acrobat suddenly releases El Vibro, a.k.a. Vibroboy, a superhero endowed with a phallic driller...

A giant man-eater swims the banks of Lake Tanganyika. It is the biggest crocodile ever documented. Its gigantic size and thick skin make it invulnerable to gun shot. The only solution is to capture it alive.

Takes you behind-the-scenes of the first solar-fueled flight around the world in Swiss airplane Solar Impulse in which two courageous pilots take turns battling nature, their own crew, and sometimes logic itself, to achieve the impossible.

What is the story behind the world famous Tussaud's wax museums? Watch the epic tale of the rise of Marie Tussaud, a female artist and entrepreneur who survived a revolution and then took her business acumen to England to establish an entertainment empire.

A never-before-seen portrait of the artist's life through his entire body of work, from his sketches as a child prodigy until his final paintings.

In 1990, in the gorges of Aveyron, a teenager passionate about speleology, Bruno Kowalczewski, discovered a cave near the village of Bruniquel. After having dug for three years to make a passage from a tiny hole, it emerges 350 meters from the entrance, into a spacious cavity containing an archaeological treasure. On the ground, hundreds of shattered stalagmites were arranged in circles by Neanderthals, as evidenced by a carbon-14 dating to at least 47,000 years ago. What significance do these limestone rings have? From when do they date precisely? For fear of damaging the remains, excavations were stopped at the end of the 1990s, leaving these questions unanswered. They resume today.

Covers Japan as the land of five elements. Godai are the five elements in Japanese Buddhist thought of earth (chi), water (sui), fire (ka), wind (fu), and void (ku), a concept related to Buddhist Mahabhuta, coming over China from India.

This is the untold story of a Nazi Germany project which secretly gave birth to Aryan children as far as France. In these maternity hospitals for the rich called the 'Lebensborn', the Nazis raised 'perfect' children born of progenitors from the SS and women with well defined racial grounds. This plan gave birth to thousands of children who were called 'Hitler's children'. They were supposed to lead the world one day. It wasn't until 30 years later that the existence of one of these centers in France was discovered. For the very first time, the children born in the 'Lebensborn' in Lamorlaye find out about their existence and disclose one the most frightening plans of History, as well as the dark secret of their origins.

An unprecedented exploration of the Alhambra in Granada, a fortified palatial city set ablaze by the Andalusian sun, a jewel of Islamic art and witness to the last Muslim kingdom in Spain.

A hero of all our childhoods, Tintin is without doubt one of the 20th century's greatest travelers. An intrepid, bighearted adventurer who crisscrossed the world, introducing eager readers to exciting and exotic destinations. Peru, Egypt, India, Scotland, Morocco, Tibet, etc., an endless series of globe-trotting voyages. Braver than James Bond, more intrepid than Indiana Jones, more curious than Sherlock Holmes, smarter than Clark Kent, Tintin is a timeless, universal hero. A legend, a myth, who has inspired and fascinated whole generations of readers.

In the night of April 15, 2019, Notre-Dame de Paris was burning at her very heart. 'Saving Notre-Dame' captures unique human stories facing extreme situations and bears witness to the progress and challenges of this once in a life mission.

The history of slavery and its abolition traced through several families. The descendants of the slaves, the traders and the owners face up to this history.

The large southern islands, Shikoku, Kyushu and Okinawa, with their relaxed atmosphere, are the cradle of Japanese spirituality. Journey between sea and sky to discover the mystical, wild islands of the South and the face of a secret Japan.

In Sardinia, the second largest island in the Mediterranean, lie the remains of a forgotten civilization, whose imprint has been miraculously preserved. For a thousand years, during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages, while Pharaonic Egypt was building its last pyramids, a prosperous people, far removed from other Mediterranean cultures, was building tall fortress-like towers: the nuraghes. This documentary lifts the veil on one of the most original cultures of the Mediterranean.

Two young Nicaraguan children, Saslaya and her mute brother Dario, must travel to Costa Rica to find their long-lost mother.

Who were the Nabateans, caravan traders who once ruled over the Arabic peninsula all the way to Syria before building the majestic city of Petra?

With exclusive access granted over 10 months of excavation, the film reveals for the first time the unexplored parts of the city of Pompeii and captures the major findings which have emerged in the last 70 years of research and a 2018 dig.

The town and Abbey of the Mont Saint-Michel built on a tiny rocky tidal island overlooking the Bay has captured the imagination of millions of visitors. The settlement on the island dates back to the 8th Century. The maze-like constructions overlapping one another unfold over centuries.

An exploration of Camargue along the water, a perpetual ode to beauty and balance.

Au rythme des huit saisons de la culture inuite, ce long métrage documentaire de Caroline Underwood et Jean Lemire aborde les effets du réchauffement planétaire sur le comportement de la faune arctique. Le recul constant des glaces menace l'existence des écosystèmes aux richesses insoupçonnées. Lauréat 2014 aux Earthwatch Film Awards, remis en collaboration avec la société National Geographic.

A historian attempts to recapture an ancient world and unveil the secrets hidden in ancient Egypt in this documentary.

A complex and complicated artist, Georges Remi created one of the most famous characters in the world, Tintin, for young readers. With exceptional access to the archives of Studios Hergé and Moulinsart, this program looks at Remi's life and the way he changed the art of comic strips.

The Scythians, skilled horsemen and nomadic conquerors, built a feared Empire in the vast Eurasian steppe between the 9th and 2rd century B.C. The only remaining traces of this people are their graves: the Kourganes.