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In the Heart of Aids' Battle
10.06.1980, Los Angeles: a first case of AIDS is described at the UCLA hospital by doctor Michaël Gottlieb. 10.06.2008, Stockholm: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier receive the Nobel Prize in Medecine. Between those two dates, the research was accomplished in a strained...
In the mind of plants
Over the recent years, a small but growing group of researchers from Austria, Germany, Italy, UK, Japan, South Africa and the USA, has developed a new scientific field of research: the neurobiology of plants. Their discoveries question our perception of the limits between the animal and the...
India - the water keepers
Traversing through Northern India, through Gujarat all the way to the Bay of Bengal, Priscilla Telmon is on the search to discover and meet the men and women who fight to find more efficient ways to use water, a now limited resource. After her arrival in Suthri, in Gujarat, Priscilla spends...
Interspecies transplant, the man and the creature
For a long time, the man dreams about the interspecies transplant: the transplant between two different species. Today, it becomes probable with the numerous experiences made on pigs and chimpanzees. The transplantation became a common operation in rich countries. However, there is much more...
Intimate Ennemies
The events that are about to be displayed before your eyes are the latest reports from a war that started several thousands years ago.
Intranet everywhere
How Intranet has changed human and managerial relationships within a big company like Schneider.
Invisible ennemy (The)
Thomas, 23, Raymond, 60, diabetic, wake up one morning, victims of eye disorders. After consultation, they are diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy and need emergency surgery. Bruno, 48, sees rainbows in the sky before his eyes. He developed glaucoma. Thomas, Raymond and Bruno have in common that...
Is the Magnetic Pole About to Flip?
Why is the magnetic North pole moving, and moving so fast? Paleomagnetism has taught us that the magnetic pole flips regularly, goint from North to South and vice versa, once every 250,000 years on average. However, the last inversion occurred 780,000 years ago! Are we on the eve of such a major...
Jaglavak, prince of insects
On the Mandara Mountains, Cameroon, Mofus have a unique relationship with insects. Predatory and carnivorous ant, Jaglavak, the prince of insects, is feared for its power and toughness. In the village, the old Matsgrawaï is a wise man who knows how to talk to Jaglavak. But will it answered the...
Jamy's Extraordinary Journeys
Our planet seems frozen. And yet it moves, it changes constantly. It produces at its heart an enormous energy that is at the origin of these metamorphoses. Every day the earth's crust is built, destroyed, and the forces that agitated it are sometimes deadly. Volcanoes are the expression of these...
Jean Loup Chrétien - The Making of a Hero
"526 seconds can change a life... When Soyouz extricated itself from the atmosphere, on June 24th, 1982, I vibrated as the cabin sending me to the sky. Through the porthole, the Earth is black as petroleum. The fluorescent dawn gets up in a fine bluish fringe. The ecstasy..." In June 24th, 1982,...
Jean Painlevé, fantasy for marine biology
Born with the century, Jean Painlevé is the founder of a real scientific cinema. Between "small aquatic dramas" filmed by the director and those big and small, life of the creator, the film returns to John Painleve its unique place in film history.
Journey into troubled waters
Almost inaccessible, the swamp of Kaw, French Guiana is a gigantic open-air laboratory: rich of an extraordinary biodiversity, it is the last sanctuary of Black Caiman, the paradise of rare birds, this wetland and its estuary are a fantastic interface between Atlantic Ocean and the South American...
Keep Looking
Why does a researcher search? What is the best way to portray disorder? Why is an oyster pearly? Why isn’t h the same as lambda? Why does it sing? Where do leaves get their shape? And why doesn’t it sing now? Why what lies below is always better than what lies alongside? How does a...
Khufu's Horizon:The secrets Of The Great Pyramid Reveald
It’s the only one of the seven Wonders of the World that’s still standing today. 5 million tons of stone stacked, 146 metres high, 4,500 years ago! The Great Pyramid of Khufu is the tallest, largest and most enigmatic of all the Pharaonic constructions. 45 centuries later, the mystery...
Kidnapped
All around the world, men, women, children, claim to be kidnapped by aliens. Some of them stay traumatized by this experience. Conscious of the nonsense of what they tell, they call for help. Kidnapped is a meeting with these men and these women, common people, sincere but distraught persons who...
Killer Cure
The Killer Cure is the personal journey of desperate men and women in search of a medical miracle, at the intersection of hype, hope and heroics. The documentary follows sick and exhausted patients as they chase down their last chance to live, all the way to a broken down laboratory in the former...
L'urgence de ralentir
We have entered the age of globalised acceleration. Speed and instant gratification have become norms for society. People are under increasing financial and economic pressure, yet we are still trying to keep up with a rhythm which is leading us towards disaster – ecological, economic and social....
Lascaux, sky of the first men (The)
On the dark walls of their caves, 17,000 years ago, they have traced the early history of the sky and its stars. The amazing birth of prehistoric astronomy ... And if Lascaux, the Sistine Chapel of prehistory, was originally a temple dedicated to the constellations...
Le coelacanthe, plongée vers nos origines
Considered to be the greatest zoological discovery of the 20th century, the coelacanth was thought to have been extinct for 63 million years before turning up in a fisherman’s net in 1938. From that day on, this castaway from a bygone age has fired the imagination of countless researchers the...
Libya, the Last Frontier
The most important archaeological site ever found in the Sahara, dating back 6000 years, was found in the Desert of Messak, south-west Libya. French archaeologist Jean-Louis Le Quellec made this discovery while accompanying an expedition led by geophysicists in search of oil. A unique prehistoric...
Life in Hell - Survivors of Darkness
In these environments, micro-organisms rule. Certain animals have strange adaptations such as skin that is totally white or even transparent. Others are blind. Scientists are studying how these species manage to survive with so little oxygen, food and light in the most inhospitable caves on the...
Life in hell - survivors of salt and acid
Some species are perfectly adapted to live in conditions that would be lethal to the vast majority of other organisms. Scientists have baptized them extremophiles, that love extreme conditions. They are found mainly in the most uninhabitable places and especially in large saline lakes and rivers...
Life on Us
There are still unexplored planets in our Solar System - strange worlds of bizarre creatures locked in a fight for survival. These unknown worlds are you and me. Each one of us is a walking ecosystem teeming with a wide variety of life forms in their trillions. Now using new camera technology...
Living in weightlessness
It is difficult to conduct experiments in space, but it exists on Earth, a way to experience weightlessness: an Airbus, which falls freely toward the ground at a speed compensating for the effects of the force of gravity. Each year, the European Space Agency is organizing a campaign of so-called...
Lofoten, thrust into the fiords
In Norway, the Lofoten archipelago is strikingly beautiful. It looks like Polynesian islands lost in the cold and snow. Located in the northern region of the most rugged coastline in the world, its rocky coastline dotted with fishing villages that live in much of the inshore cod. The Arctic region...
Mémoires d'un bébé (Les)
The twentieth century was the century of the baby: doctors, demographers, psychoanalysts, teachers and publicists all cooed over his crib. Inseparable from the customs and movements of his time, the baby is inextricably intertwined with history of which he is a very endearing witness.
Madagascar mystery
Exploration and adventure in Madagascar's unexplored Tsingy rock formations.
Madagascar, a Tree Top Odyssey
The gigantic inflatable research station for studying the canopy is off again on an expedition on the island of Madagascar. About fifty scientists from around the world meet at the top of the trees in one of the last virgin forests of our planet, to conduct in-depth research on the extremely rich...
Malaria, the silent bloodbath
500 million persons affected by the disease. More than 2 millions deaths a year with 90% in Africa. The malaria is one of the first causes of death in sub-saharan Africa. One child of five still dies from this disease that we considered, one time, eradicated. Shooted in Kenya,...
Man with the golden cells (The)
Since the discovery of their immense therapeutic promise, the cells have become an essential resource for medical research. They have acquired an economic value, and are subject to investment and comercial trade. A market that shakes our ethical positions. This film is part of the exemplary...
Mars rising: search for life
After discovering the presence of water on Mars, space agencies from around the world have launched a formidable challenge: to send men to explore Mars. Today the countdown of this adventure without precedent in the history of humanity is raised ... We're heading for Mars!
Maud Fontenoy, Against the Current
29-year-old Maud Fontenoy is not an usual adventurer. She's the first woman to have rowed her way entirely across the Atlantic from America to Europe. This accomplished sportswoman has been sailing since she was a little girl, and has earned recognition in both swimming and horse-riding...
Meeting Henri Atlan
There are lives dedicated to a great work, others going through a thousand paths. Henri Atlan put his at the confluence of medicine, philosophy, science and religion. Humanist doctor, biologist recognized philosopher, longtime member of the Ethics Committee, talmudist... Henri Atlan is all at once....
Mice and men
The influence of new technologies on communications and employment.
Mont Blanc, Europe
In 1892, a water pocket, hidden in the center of the Tête Rousse glacier in the Alps, burst open, sweeping several villages away and causing 175 deaths. Scientists are still unable to detect these water pockets inside glaciers. Now that global warming is affecting the Alpine ecosystem, they are...
Mont Saint-Michel, a nutritive bay
The bay of Mont Saint-Michel is home to life in its greatest diversity, but here the man threatens biodiversity.
My Jules Verne
This film is a tribute to Jules Verne, the great universal writer, and the people who love adventure, risk, and dream.
Mysteries of Clipperton (The)
A ring of coral lost in the Pacific. The most isolated atoll on earth. Clipperton, tiny French territory off the coast of Mexico, remains a scientific mystery. How did life manage to take root here? Which species have developed ? Doctor Jean-Louis Etienne fulfils a lifelong dream by organizing a...
Mysteries of Kyys, the chamane (The)
In 2006, Eric Crubezy, anthropologist and forensic scientific discovered an ancient tomb with exceptional remains: one of the most well-preserved tomb ever discovered in Siberia. A woman was lying in a wooden casket surrounding by offerings, and that woman was a shaman... Her body was enveloped in...
Mysteries of the Canopy (The)
The treetop raft, a huge inflatable device for exploring and studying the canopy, heads to the island of Madagascar for an exciting expedition. Fiftysome researchers gather together to carry out an indepth study of the flora and fauna of this exceptional region. The scientists initiate us into the...
Nano, next dimension
Our planet on which we are increasingly cramped, could again become immeasurably greater if we go to another dimension, reaching the size of a billionth of a meter, a nanometer.
Naturopolis New York, The green revolution
NEW YORK, THE GREEN REVOLUTION takes you on a trip to New York, with a specific goal in mind: discover nature in the city, find the “wilderness”, understand how nature is coming back and why, brought by man, it can sometimes change the face of the city, not just today but over the next 50...
Naturopolis Rio : la course vers la ville verte
Rio de Janeiro is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. A green city with its bay, iconic beaches, mountains and large urban forests…but if you go beyond the picture postcard idyll, Rio is suffering from pollution, landslides, poor sewage systems, dilapidated buildings and filthy...
Neblina, mounts of fog
Somewhere in the Amazon, the lost world of Conan Doyle has become a reality.
Negotiation (The) Who wants to save climate ?
In 2011, Paris school of Economics staged a reenactement of the 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen. Students played negociators. Over 200 people took part of this experience.
Netherlands, sacrificed polders
"God created the world, the Dutch Netherlands." The delta region in the south of the Netherlands which half is below the sea level has been completely reshaped by man not to be under the waves. Following the great flood of 1953, the country has been engaged in Herculean labors after which the...
Neuromarketing, citizens under the influence?
As marketers' favorite target, our brain seems threatened with an always more effective decoding. Because the market studies do not guarantee the success of a product, marketers now turn to neurosciences. They confess that the objective is to decode the subconscious part of our brain to know our...
Niede Guidon, the secret of the Pedra Furada
In Brazil, Niède Guidon digs up human tracks dated between 10 and 40 000 years. This discovery questions the convictions of the scientific community and disturb little scrupulous exploiters.
Nile Delta, the end of the miracle (The)
A serious threat hangs over the Egyptians, they will be among the first to suffer the consequences of global warming: much of the overpopulated delta will be submerged by 2100 with a Mediterranean sea increasingly aggressive. Nearly 40 million people live less than two meters above sea...