catalogue
Aral: chronicle of a drained sea
The dreadful disappearance of the Aral Sea: explanations, causes and consequences. For almost 40 years, the five ex soviets republics of Central Asia have to face one of the worst ecological plague: the disappearance of the Aral Sea. The Sea began to flow back from the early 60's which implied...
Archimède
Science magazine aimed at a general audience which sets out to answer two questions: what is science today in terms of outlook, method and research? What is the relationship between science and society? Each episode is made up of five items: 1- Seeing: an image or a series of images shown by...
Arctic Mission, Climate on the Edge
Describing the climatic changes and their impact on the living world. The Earth has always known climatic variations during its evolution but human activities have triggered a global warming as never known before. Climatologists, ice specialists, astrophysicists, oceanographers help us understand...
Around the world in 90 minutes
We leave for a trip around the world in real time. Of the seven billion human beings who inhabit our land, only six were lucky enough to see the world from space. It is the team of astronauts on the International Space Station. In precisely 90 minutes, they have the privilege to make a full...
Around the world, Around the sky
Taking up the title of a ten film series on the history of astronomical observatories from antiquity until today broadcasted by Arte in 1990 (Tours du monde, tours du ciel- Around the world, around the sky), this project deals with astronomy and observatories, but today, with a new story and a new...
ARTE Expeditions
This serie is about the adventures of 15 lucky tv viewers who took part in 15 great French, German and Swiss scientific expeditions. The ARTE Expeditions deals with great scientific problems with the most famous research institutes. Series in 7 episodes: Unravelling the mystery Maya A volcano...
Artificial Uterus. Birth without bodies (the)
An artificial placenta, a synthetic amniotic fluid… These medical advancements designed to help premature babies could soon allow the creation of an "artificial uterus”, and with it the possibility of fabricating human babies outside a woman’s body. The film is a scientific investigation...
Ascent of Mars mountain
When science fiction becomes reality: a team of top climbers and Red Planet experts recreate, on earth, the climb to the highest peak on Mars, and indeed, the highest in the universe: the 22,000 meters Olympus Mont.
Astronomer and the indian (The)
In the Atacama desert in Chili, four of the largest astronomical observatories on the planet have been built. A new observatory, the ALMA, is going to be constructed a few kilometers from Indian villages established in the same Cordillera for centuries. The film questions the co-existence on the...
Atom Smashers (the)
Did the american government slow down scientific research in the USA? A group of American physicists lead the international search for the Higgs boson - the "god particle" - while struggling with a government and culture perhaps at odds with scientific progress, an aging four-mile long machine, as...
Atome Sweet Home
A coffee machine, a platypus, and we humans are all made of the same raw material: atoms. Our Universe and everything it contains is an assemblage of atoms that are billions of years old, continuously recycled since the Big Bang. If everything is made of the same matter, what is the difference...
Attacks of Sharks in La Reunion: the investigation
Images CHARC program in coproduction with audiovisual service IRD Institute of Research for Development and with the support of the Region, Conseil Régional d’Île-de-France Ten attacks and five deaths. For three years, the Meeting Island in Indian Ocean is in forehead (front) of has...
Attention, a millennium may hide another
In 2009, the city should celebrate its millennium Châteaugiron. The event is scheduled for several years, but an unexpected finding alters the program of festivities. It is perhaps not a millennium that will be celebrated, but several, if the archaeological excavation undertaken confirms the...
Autism Enigma (The)
Autism is the fastest rising developmental disorder in the industrialized world. With an astounding 600% Autism increase in the last 20 years, scientists are still grappling with it’s cause. Research is inconclusive, but the emerging theme is that autism is triggered by environment, not genetics,...
Automatic Brain - The magic of the unconscious
Automatic Brain will feature top international scientists, such as John Bargh of Yale University. He says, that our everyday life is automated to an incredible extent. The German neurologist Gerhard Roth even claims, that "the human's free will is probably just a myth". Sydney's neurologist Allan...
Awake in a bad dream
This film will be screened with French subtitles. Up close and without comment this film shows how breast cancer throws the lives of three women into turmoil. Sabrina, Vicky and Ingrid fight to uphold their dignity and womanhood despite the pain and sorrow they have to go through. How do they...
Axel Kahn, be reasonable and human
Who’s behind this extraordinary mediatic scientist? We think we know this man always in a hurry, workaholic, man of political fights and great communicator. He gives the image of a geneticist self-confident, popularizer of difficult questions. Behind this facade, this movie proposes an...
Bélon, a small estuary in balance
The Bélon watershed, one of the smaller French estuaries seems to have found a balance between human activity and preservation of a unique natural environment. Yet this balance is threatened by the deteriorating water quality, and the consequences could eventually weigh on the local pride: the...
Babies of love and science
This movie tells the exciting adventure, full of dreams, hopes and dismays that were three decades pioneers of the Medically assistance for procreation, one of the biggest discoveries of our time. The story begins on July 25th, 1978 in England with Louise Brown's birth, first test-tube baby to...
Baby Boomers take on Mount Mera
Nepal. The Himalayas. The highest mountains on the planet. Peaks, including Mount Everest’s, that tower over the Earth at 8,000+ metres high. In November 2008, Découverte proudly whisked its viewers away to this spectacular place. Baby Boomers take on Mount Mera portrays a bold scientific...
Bacterialand
The power of bacteria seems unlimited! Scientists discovered in Antarctica colonies of bacteria prospering in a temperature of -68°C, conditions comparable to those on Mars. These bacteria were sent to the space to try to understand the beginning of the life. Others resist doses of...
Baie de Somme, give back the land to the sea... (The)
With a 70 km long estuary forming a 12 km wide notch, the Baie de Somme ranks among the most beautiful bays in the world. This magical site, largely won over the sea, yet is threatened by a natural and progressive sanding. Beyond issues related to the preservation of a unique natural...
Basking Sharks, the gentle giants
Their appearance is so horrific that they were still considered in the last century as sea monster. However the up to twelve-metre-long basking sharks are peaceful plankton eaters and near to extinction. Only 8000 –so estimated- swim as restless vagabonds through the oceans. Nobody knows where...
Battle of Chernoby (The)
On April 26, 1986, a flame rises 1,000 meters high in the sky of Ukraine. The most serious nuclear accident in history just happened. The Battle of Chernobyl is an incredible race against the clock where 500,000 miners and soldiers but also civilians, were sent from all republics of the Soviet...
Bay of Mont Saint-Michel, a balance in motion (The)
When you reach the peaceful heights of Mont-Saint-Michel for a brief stay, you are immediately struck by the ambiguous force of the bay that surrounds it. This infinite horizontal space seems to be the field of vacuum, frozen forever in an apparent immobility. Yet it is not because it is subject to...
Beast of Natal
Each year in June, five billion sardines come together to form the largest living organism on the planet. The beast of Natal, forming a column of twenty miles by two, began the most incomprehensible of animal migration: three months and five thousand miles, explain neither by reproduction nor the...
Beating heart (A)
The heart transplant was the greatest medical adventure of the 20th century. Who would have imagined that the heart, the essential organ of life, could be replaced like a humble motor? Who would have predicted that a person who had just died could give their heart to someone else, thus saving their...
Bees Extinction, solving the Mystery
This gripping film is conceived like a police investigation, aiming at unfolding a criminal mystery. Here, the inquiry is about the bees that are vanishing from the face of the planet. It is a spreading disaster, first spotted November 2006 in the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Spain,...
Bends (7 road accidents)
After a road accident, Hélène, Frédérique, Jean-Luc and Monique deliver us with a deep emotion their testimonies and their determination to reconstruct. Professionals of the road, sociologists and witnesses guide us in the heart of this wild investigation.
Benjamin Franklin and the first balloons
On November 21st 1783 in Paris, a balloon rises over a crowd of spectators spellbound with on board Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes. One of humanity’s oldest dreams was finally coming true. For the first time ever, Man had taken off from the Earth, and was able to fly! On January...
Beyond the blue of the sky
Following the spirit of Magellan's voyage, five astronauts: a Russian, an American, a Canadian and two Europeans, share with us their experience, their emotions and their questionings on the future of space exploration towards the planet Mars and beyond.
Big Bang Theatre
An audiovisual spectacle in the form of a video triptych, in which three scientists defend their points of view in a friendly debate. François Bouchet, Marc Lachièze-Rey and Hubert Reeves meet to debate a theory that has been largely accepted for several decades, but amuse themselves and the...
Body Language
In collaboration with Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol. Our body talks. Mastering body language gives a strategic edge to a wide range of professionals, from corporate executives, doctors, lawyers, to masters of martial arts, scientists, executives in insurance, financial institutions and law...
Borders of infinity: how Star Trek Changed the World
The adventures of Star Trek have fed the imagination of many scientists, who watched them when they were children. Mobile phones to computers, Star Trek has permeated our view of the world and reflected the aspirations and issues of society of the sixties then eighty...
Born HIV-positive, the life in front of one
This is the story of hundreds of young people born in France, during the darkest period of the AIDS epidemic, before the doctor could prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus. They were born with it, grew with it, and are surviving with it. With their viral load contained, most of them are...
Brainy women
Although more and more women choose to specialize in sciences in high school and massively major in sciences at University, women represent less than 30% of European researchers. Two Swedish biologists have proven that women in researchers must be two and a half times more productive than men to be...
Buffon, Nature's Thinker
Mathematician, botanist, naturalist, geologist, encyclopedist, industrialist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon was all this and much more. He left us a considerable heritage in every domain he tackled right up until his death at the age of 80. His "Natural History", a genuine scientific...
Building for the Future. How Climate Change is Impacting Architecture
French version of the film Sea levels are rising and storms are becoming increasingly powerful. Climate change has serious consequences. Hurricane Katrina cost USD 80 billion; Typhoon Haiyan killed more than 5,000 people – many in their homes. Is our architecture still fulfilling its actual...
Bye bye ginea pig?
With the development of alternative methods, the use of animal testing has been declining over the past twenty years. But will scientific research be able to stop using animal testing one day?
C'est pas sorcier
Another episode of the magazine hosted by Fred and Jamy.
C'est pas sorcier - Tahiti's pearls : the oysters' secret
Fred and Jamy travel to Manihi Atoll in order to understand how pearl farms manage to extract magnificent mother-of-pearls spheres out of mollusks. From shell breeding to beautiful jewel crafting, they tell us of the whole history of the Tahitian pearls.
C'est pas sorcier / Carbon: the wizards are on balance
Scientist note that temperatures increase since the last century, due to greenhouse gases emissions. And carbon dioxide emission is the most important. If we found a high quantity of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, it’s because of human activities... Fred conducts the investigation. He...
Côa, the river with a thousand engravings
The discovery of thousands of engravings dating back to 25,000 B.C, which have laid exposed to the open air along the banks of the Portuguese River Coa, could revolutionise the way we imagine the lives and the purpose of art of our prehistoric ancestors. Rock art in caves may have been an...
Camargue, a threatened future
The reality of the Camargue is very different from his image of original nature, its blank spaces largely artificial, species that live in or pass, but also men, are subjected to all sorts of pressures (pollution, alteration of habitats, drift land...), through the convergence of many human...
Camargue, an unfinished battle over water
In the Rhone's delta, nature and life are ordered in relation to water. Man has gradually built the ecosystem to take advantage of its wealth. Dependent between freshwater and salt water operators, conflicts today result in a water management incredibly complex and an increasing fragility. This...
CAPTURE (THE)
Pierre Bergounioux is one of the major writers of our time. If his work has a worldwide impact, it also has its privileged domains: history and literature, remembering and writing, childhood and the Corrèze. A voice, indeed, but also a body – gnarled but stirring, like one of...
Carmen
Carmen runs away of the research center on the language, where she was born and became this malignant and shameless teenager. Outside, she discovers the fear, the hunger and the incomprehension of people. She ends in cage. There, she crosses the glance of a man. His name is Mercier, soon father,...
Carpe Diem
Carpe Diem is the story of the staff and residents of medical establishments hosting patients with Alzheimer. Carpe Diem is the name of such a unit in Quebec. Its philosophy, elaborated by director Nicole Poirier and her staff over the years, is based on the idea of “building a beautiful day...
Cathedrals unveiled (The)
This was one of the greatest achievements of the Middle Ages. Born in the heart of the kingdom of France, in the middle of the twelfth century, Gothic art has dominated Europe and initiated a revolution in architecture. Its best-known landmark, the cathedral, has transformed the landscape of...
Chanee et les singes chanteurs
This film is an in-depth exploration of the little-known world of Chanee who devotes her life to saving gibbons. Her organisation, Kalaweit, rescues gibbons threatened by poaching and animal trafficking and helps them readapt to life in the wild.