catalogue
Sustainable development, the world challenge
This series approaches most important subjects of the millenium defined by the UNO about development. The series is realized in collaboration with the French Agency of Development ( AFD). The 10 episodes: Peace, the prevention of risks and conflict: Chad Water: Senegal Culture and...
Tales of the universe
The sky has a history of an exceptional wealth. It did not stop, in the course of the centuries, exercising an unlimited fascination on the human being, feeding the fears and the faiths of the big civilizations. It is the domain of the Gods, there where they decide on the future of the humanity....
The Adventurers of the Island Planete
Santo 2006 is the most ambitious scientific expedition never led on the biodiversity. Its mission: to draw up an inventory of fixtures of the flora and the fauna of the ground and marine circles of a paradisiac island of the South Pacific: Santo ( Espiritu Santo), in Vanuatu.
The Astroboy age
According to the Japanese research institute, Seed Planning, by 2015, 13 million robot assistants will be part of Japanese homes to cheer up, comfort and possibly take care of their owners. This documentary blends clips from Japanese cartoons, interviews with fiction writers, sociologists,...
The Disappearance
Franck Bertrand left Paris one day of August, 1974, when he was 18 year-old. He left the keys of his room at the janitor, he came back to his parent’s house. He left his agenda and some personal stuff, and then, disappeared. Nobody had any news of him since that day. What happened? Where is he?...
The empire of sounds
Before the industrial revolution, people would regulate their daily activities according to the sounds in the natural world around them. When the church bell rang the midday angelus, lunchtime had arrived. And then, throughout the centuries, the auditory environment changed, diversified and...
The Fabulous Story of poop
80% of the world population live in the middle of excrement, and 0,00001% in the middle of roses. In France alone, half a million people work directly or indirectly in the recycling, evacuation or the treatment of human or animal excrement. However in our ‘so called’ civilized society, the...
The face of evil
Berlin, 1943: Bruno Lüdke, a young man of the suburbs, is accused of 81 murders. His whole body is an accusation, starting from his face: the “bad guy’s face”, one of a true brutish lout. For the Police of the time there’s no doubt he is guilty. And his name is still associated today to...
The fake fish case
Having discovered a mysterious abyssale creation, a famous explorer and his assistant, James Fischer, lead the investigation in the borders of the imagination and the human brain.
The floating hospital in the mountains
On Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake, an hospital boat tours between Peru and Bolivia.
The great Invasion
We eat them, we breathe them, we touch them everyday. Without our knowing, thousands of invisible chemicals are part of our daily lives, embedded in our food and water, an integral part of our detergents, plastics, and fabrics. Brominated flame retardants, alkylphenols, permethrine, bisphenol-A,...
The gut, our second brain
Also in Student Competition A few years ago, scientists discovered the existence of a second brain in our body. There are 200 million neurons in our belly! Researchers are just beginning to decrypt the permanent secret dialogue between these two brains. Their discovery has opened great hopes for...
The Kingdom of the Nabateans, from Hegra to Medain Saleh
The Nabatean civilization is largely associated with the famous city of Petra in Jordan. But their culture extended way beyond these borders into Syria and Saudi Arabia. Now, for the first time ever, a French archaeological mission has been allowed to dig at the Median Saleh site in Saudi Arabia....
The last cabbage of Kerguelen
When man puts foot for the first time on the virgin lands of Kerguelen, only two centuries ago, it announces the end of an absolute tranquility and the beginning of an irreparable transformation.
The Lotus, from Spirituality to Hypertechnology
An ancestral symbol of spirituality, the lotus is nowadays an emblem of the technological revolution. From the shores of the Ganges to French research laboratories, from the summit of Mount Fuji to the Institute for Bionics in Berlin, we discover the "lotus effect" and its surprising hydrophobic...
The Man From Kennewick
July 1996. Two students stumbled across a skull in the Columbia river (Washington State, USA). The skull was later dated to 9,300 years BC and bears features of a precursor that have since being replaced. Kennewick Man's story questions the history of early Americans.
The man who cracked the nazi code
Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician and forgotten hero of the Second World War, played a huge part un the Allied victory by breaking the German's codes... before persecution related to his homosexuality drove him to suicide. It's fairly uncommun for a scientist to have such an influence on...
The medical imaging revolution
Medicine wouldn’t be what it is today without the contribution of imagery technology. Seeing something clearly means greater understanding and better treatment. Medical imaging enables doctors to diagnose diseases at much earlier stages. Our attention focuses on the use of imaging to detect...
The Mistery of Sleep
Why are we distracted, tired or lazy at different times during the day? Why do we fall ill? Medicine has always sought the replies to these questions in our waking state. On the contrary, sleep research looks for them in an, as of yet, poorly understood state: sleep. The Mistery of Sleep...
The Murderous Heatwave
August 2003: 14.802 people die from the un-precedent heat wave which strikes France. An unexpected medical catastrophe in a developed country which today questions its inability to face such a disaster. What did we learn from it? Doctors, politicians, Weather forecasters and first hand accounts...
The New Cities
Urban populations have not ceased to grow, primarily due to the rural exodus in developing countries, in particular China and India. Each week, throughout in the world, one million more people move to the city. At this furious and unprecedented pace, 70% of all humans will be concentrated in...
The Outer Adventure - From Baby to Kiss
When a mother looks in wonder at her newborn child, little does she imagine that fifteen years later her tiny one will have turned into a rebellious teenager, defending his or her ideas with conviction, listening to loud music, often hiding in his or her messed-up bedroom, and perhaps experiencing...
The polar minute
Series of short programs about the problem of the poles and the global warming with the complicity of Jean-Louis Etienne. The objective of this series: better understand the North Pole and the South Pole and the environmental stakes which are bound to it. Jean-Loup Etienne, big specialist of the...
The School of Medicine
How does one become a doctor? These students are between 17 and 30 years old and are our future doctors. Every day, they climb a step further towards the objective they have set for themselves, but the journey is long and full of roadblocks. Cramming, learning medical reasoning and the requirements...
The secrets of Karakoum
For the past four years, in the back sand desert of Karakoum, close to Merv in Turkmenistan, a team of Italian and Turkmen archaeologists has been excavating and exploring the largest necropolis of the Bronze Age in Central Asia. 1500 well preserved tombs revealed their precious treasures,...
The Sustainable City
As the urbanization of the planet intensify and our natural resources dwindle, our way of thinking the city and to build our buildings is questioned. Town planners, architects, engineers, political decision-makers propose new solutions today to build "durably". Through the interviews of big...
The Whale Mystery
The island of Madre de Dios is one of the largest of the 5,000 islands in Chilean Patagonia. Lashed by Pacific storms in the howling fifties, the island is uninhabited, uninhabitable and almost unexplored. It is an exceptional and wild environment only made more unusual by the marble glaciers: the...
The Wild West Uncovered
The American Wild West of legend is a sprawling desert fraught with promise and danger… A land of characters larger than life, whose exploits were celebrated - and undoubtedly embroidered - by the then-young travel writer Mark Twain. Today, an archaeological dig in the heart of gold rush country...
The Wings of the Condor
Angelo d'Arrigo, French-Italian champion of hang-gliding and used to extreme challenges, dedicated several years of his life to a dream: fly with birds, be inspired of their technique of flight and protect them. His last project is dedicated to the most majestic of all the birds, a bird of prey...
The World according to baby
In France, Canada and the United States, researchers are wondering about the abilities of babies. They study their knowledge and experience, using new tools and rely on the development of theories to try to better understand the development of the fetus.
The world of colours
From the iridescence of a butterfly's wing to the coating of a new car, from cave paintings to a Christian Lacroix show, from Masai rituals to the colour of traffic signs, The World of Colours takes us on a spectacular journey that combines knowledge and pleasure, surprise and wonder. Serie of 3...
These animals that bother us
Environmental thrillers in which every episode features an animal in the center of an imbroglio. Here, are exposed appetites, tensions, and interests of political or other schools of thought...
Through the stone
400m deep under limestone, flows a river. This cave is the famous Pierre Saint-Martin: at over 1500m depth over 50km of underground galleries collect several rivers coming out into the open air after a mysterious journey 10 km away.
Time of Biomasters (the)
From Orwell to Steven Spielberg, fiction has always been interested in the "progress" -technical or scientific- in controlling identities. However, to see Tom Cruise being grafted eyes to escape the control of iris in Minority Report, you will soon drag your finger in a fingerprint reader to have...
Tipping Point
Each year the oceans, produce half of our oxygen. They represent nearly one half of the productivity of the planet. And they are threatened. We know that, by producing ever increasing amounts of CO2, man is turning the climate upside down. Since very recently, we also know that the excess of...
Tokyo a coming laboratory (Les nouveaux explorateurs)
In 2030, eighty per cent of the world population will be urban. The major challenge of the future lies therefore in these megalopolises. On this new exploration, Priscilla Telmon has chosen Tokyo to reveal initiatives that will improve the Japanese lifestyle.
Tomorrow, a world without ice? Life in suspension
Since the end of the last glaciation 20,000 years ago, a unique wildlife has adapted, and with what ingenuity, the polar regions. This adaptation is so complete that global warming threatens all species emblematic of the cold polar bears, caribou, emperor penguin ice or fish, but all fauna and...
Toumaï, enquiry on our origins
July 2002, in the Djourab desert of North Chad. Culminating more than twenty years of work, Michel Brunet, director of the French-Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission (MPFT) announces the discovery of our oldest human ancestor recorded to date. The creature, better known as Toumaï, is seven...
Toumaï, the New Ancestor
July 2001, in the Djourab desert of north Chad. Culminating more than twenty years of work, Michel Brunet, director of the French-Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission (MPFT) announces the discovery of our oldest human ancestor recorded to date. The creature, better known as Toumaï, is seven...
Tracking the Giant Squid
September 28, 2005, a world premiere: a team of Japanese scientists led by Dr Tsunemi Kobodera has successfully photographed the most mysterious of all marine animals, the Architeutix Dux, in its natural habitat. It is the largest of all giant squids, reaching up to 18 meters in length and...
Tracking the Jura Dinosaurs
This 30-minute documentary links together the research on the dinosaur track sites carried out on both sides of the Franco-Swiss border. It means that a map of this cooperation on the theme of the Jura can be drawn up which could well prove to be crucial for the future of palaeontological research...
Tuned to climates
Egyptian Sahara, on the West of the Nile, is the most arid region of the world. Its grand landscapes are protected from any raid because this region is of a very difficult access. We discover here traces of lakes dried up since millenniums and even, lost in thousands of kilometers of any oasis,...
Under the sign of the snake
Xavier Bonnet was born “under the sign of the snake”. A herpetologist of international renown, he travels the world seeking to discover the secrets of reptiles. Fascinated by their survival strategies and their capacity for adaptation, he studies how certain species evolve in extreme...
Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta
In 2001, south-eastern Iran, the change of course Halil Rud River has revealed the presence of thousands of artifacts dating back over five thousand years, traces of a civilization unknown to date. Scientists are unanimous on the importance of this discovery that could call into question the common...
Urine Superpowers
Many of us are oblivious to the fact that our first months of life were actually spent swimming in urine. Indeed, the amniotic sac is made up of 80% urine, from the fetus and on average, the fetus releases two glasses of pee per day. During our lives, each of us will have produced 38.000 liters of...
Vanuatu, islands of pigs
In the middle of the Pacific, on the islands of Vanuatu, people like an animal… Sacred stones honorits memory, drums announce its presence, dances, singings celebrate its value, it embodies the wealth, it is in the center of the traditions. For centuries, the natives of Vanuatu venerate...
Venice lagoon, a quiet area (The)
The whole world knows Venice is threatened by floodwaters. Now is the lagoon which is jeopardized by the same operations that aim to safeguard the city of Venice. 55 km from north to south, the lagoon of Venice is one of the largest wetland in Europe, the largest in Italy, a veritable...
Voyage entre Sol et Terre
Claude and Lydia Bourguignon, agricultural engineers, propose to revisit a number of agricultural practices. They study the ground more than the earth and they spend two-thirds of the year in France and abroad digging holes. They observe, feel, taste the earth before extracting samples at...
War and peace in the kitchen garden
Within a kitchen garden where no chemical treatments are used, bugs are everywhere. The more numerous they are, the more there are chances to find an "assistant gardener" insect preying on the enemies of vegetables. But animal laws are far from being as tender as those of the gardeners! In the...
What seafood for tomorrow ?
The demand and market for what is commonly known as seafood are in a state of permanent expansion. We simply need to take a look at the freezers of fish that have doubled in size in our supermarkets over the last few years to realize that alongside the frozen and breaded items, numerous...