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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...
New Zealand, Land of Adventures
New Zealand is a land of adventures. The Island is surrounded by the raging waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea, sculpting the coastline. The active volcanoes on North Island continuously build new landscapes, eroded by heavy rain and mighty windstorms. Sitting atop the boundary between...
Nickel Island (The)
Jewel of the marine and terrestrial biodiversity, New Caledonia, is home to rare species. And one of the largest world reserves of nickel, the first resource of the island, where extraction and processing can have a significant environmental impact. Between protection of a unique and economic...
Nile Crocodile after Eden (The)
In a pool of the Crocodile Farm of Pierrelatte, a crocodile stares with nostalgy at its ancestors’ plastic reproduction : the Sarcosuchus imperator. Its journey through Time and its species’ memory takes it to the edge of the river that gaves it its name : the Nile. It remembers the glory...
No Gravity
"I have always wanted to explore inaccessible and dangerous places. As a child, I dreamed about flying to space. I had often heard that it was a man’s trade, that one shouldn’t have daydreamed. I refused those rules, I had to become a space engineer, I built rockets, I applied to be an...
No Problem! Six Months with the Barefoot Grandmamas
No Problem! - Six Months with the Barefoot Grandmamas follows the story of the 2011 batch of African women attending the rural solar electrification project at the Barefoot College in Rajasthan, India, where numerous illiterate rural women from all over the world, particularly Africa, are being...
Nostalgia for the light
In Chile, at three thousand metres altitude, astronomers from all over the world gather in the Atacama desert to observe the stars. The desert sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the Universe. It is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human...
Nothing
Nothing explores science at the very limits of human perception, where we now understand the deepest mysteries of the universe lie. Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to answer one very simple question - what is nothing? For over a century, top scientists have grappled with this question: from...
Nuclear Lands
The film begins with the story of the birth of plutonium production in the 40s in Hanford USA, then recounts the history of the nuclear reprocessing plant in La Hague, France, then tells of the Rokkasho nuclear site in Japan which is actually built on a seismic fault line.Citizens and local...
Nyiragongo: a volcano in the city
At 15 km from Goma in Congo, stands, at 3500 meters, one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world, the Nyiragongo. In 2002, a catastrophic eruption caused lava flows into the city of Goma. The plume has persisted over the volcano, volcanologist Jacques Durieux worries: the volcano threat...
O for origin
4 billion years ago, asteroids, large blocks of ice and rocks racing through the solar system combined into planets. Our heroine Piccolina, a water molecule inside a frozen meteorite, lands on our planet. As ice melts, H2O molecules like Piccolina become liquid water, the elixir of life. In...
O2 - The Molecule That Made Our World
Oxygen – we all need it, we can’t live without it. It’s integral to life on this planet. And it’s probable that, as you watch this film, you will be breathing in an oxygen atom that was also breathed by Genghis Khan – or by the first ever apes to stand upright on the plains of Africa. ...
Odyssey of the Continents - Europe : The Modern Era
“Europe : The Modern Era” will take the audience back to the birth of the Alps. The traditional “Cristalier” clans who have been unearthing crystal for centuries explain to us how these huge summits evolved over a period of millions of years. Retrieving these gems requires huge risks and...
Of Stars and Men
Inspired by the book of the astronomer Harlox Shapley, Of stars and men follows the quest of a child (representing mankind) to find its place in the universe, through themes such as space, matter, meaning of life ... the bias graph, inspired by the cartoon, the colors and the playful and poetic...
On the trail of art
This exclusive-access documentary will bring truth and understanding to an art world filled with secrets and riddles. From the basement of the Louvre in Paris to the Opificio delle pietre dure in Florence, discover how science can restore original beauty and confound counterfeits. Thanks to...
On the yeti trail
For the first time in more than a century, legends and sometimes crazy testimonies are the subject of real scientific studies. Several teams around the world, in Denmark, in England, in the United-states and in Russia, are engaged in a fierce competition to be the first to publish revolutionary...
Once Upon a Time in the Zoo
Immersion in Beauval Zoo in Loir et Cher backstage to live closer to the animals.
Once Upon a Time on Florès Island
March 2008, the famous journal Science publishes an article confirming that human bones found in 2004 on the island of Flores in Indonesia are indeed those of a new species of human being. These tiny people lived there just a few thousand years ago. The scientists have baptized this new cousin...
Opération Lune – L'épave cachée du Roi Soleil
The boat of Louis the XIV, La Lune, wrecked off Toulon in November 1664. The ship was coming back from an expedition on the Barbary Coast with more than a thousand men onboard. Wonderfully conserved, such as an underwater Pompeii, it has been an extraordinary architectural search.
Operation Iceberg - Ep 1: Birth of a 'berg
The team uncover the hidden forces that explain why the Store Glacier of Greenland produces so many icebergs. Naturalist Chris Packham works with scientists on a research yacht in the danger zone at the front of the glacier, whilst ocean specialist Helen Czerski explores the inside of the glacier...
Origins of Language (The)
Where does this strange faculty of ours come from? Along with the ability to walk on two feet, the invention of language is regarded as one of the most important stages in the adventure of human development. Until the 1980s, speech and language, the brain and the larynx were inextricably linked,...
Other men (The)
Contact with the West precipitated the demise of most indigenous societies. Through their art, their imagination has survived and is now exposed in the major museums. In this complex legacy, we feel that is played today something essential: a connection to the world different from our.
Out from the shadows: the story of Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie
This fascinating biography relates the life and times of Irène Joliot-Curie, the eldest daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. Although less well known than her parents, Irene and her husband, Frédéric, made a contribution to nuclear physics that was of equally ground-breaking significance. And...
Pandora's Promise
Also in Student Competition This film will be screened with French subtitles.All environmentalists and left-leaning political activists oppose nuclear energy, right ? Wrong. What if everything we knew about nuclear energy was wrong ? What is nuclear power is the only energy source that has the...
Particle Fever
This film will be screened with French subtitles. Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity. Particle Fever gives audiences a front row seat to scientific discovery as it happens. The film follows six brilliant...
Pasteur
This film follows the life and discoveries of the great scientist, as he works alongside his wife Marie and other close collaborators. We relive the adventure-packed life of a man who was raised in the Napoleonic spirit, by an old-guard soldier father who taught him to never surrender. Pasteur...
Path of depth (The)
Loïc Leferme, incredible freediving, explores both the limits of great depth and of his conscience... He goes beyond 170 meters under the sea, snorkeling, where lies a realm previously reserved only for creatures of the deep ... While his body is transformed, yard by yard, he sees a few...
Paths of reading (The)
The film structures itself around a central question we ask as an enigma: how to reconcile the cultural singularity that is reading, developed recently by our single species, with the slow pace of genetic evolution, and therefore with the fixity of brain biology? Stanislas Dehaene proposed an...
Perfect Runner (The)
Explore the miracle of running through the science of human evolution. From the highlands of Ethiopia, to the most remote place in Arctic Siberia, to a grueling ultramarathon in the Canadian Rockies, "The Perfect Runner" weaves cutting-edge science with gripping adventure, and leaves the viewer...
Physics on the go
Filmed in a small village in the Southern Alps where he spends his holidays with his family, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes is engaged as a man but also as a researcher through multiple interviews intercut with scenes of everyday life and some simple manipulations that allow him to explain the principles...
Pirates of life
Permission to patenting genetically modified organisms (GMOs), like any industrial product, opened the door to privatization of life, which, under the pressure of a few multinationals and the World Trade Organization (WTO) has spread to all the living resources of the planet. The North patent on...
Plastic - The real Seamonster
Plastic floats.This is where our story begins.Millions of tons enter the ocean every year, pouring out from rivers and shores,ships and platforms. The world’s scientists have studied the phenomenon and come to alarming results.Plastic contains synthetic hormones that are released when plastic...
Plug & Pray
Since antiquity, humankind has dreamed of creating intelligent machines. The invention of the computer and the breathtaking pace of technological progress appear to be bringing the realisation of this dream within our grasp. Scientists and engineers across the world are working on the...
Pobalski Mammoth
Victor Pierre Bouvier, explorer, arrives in Oubalski, in Eastern Siberia, searching for a frozen mammoth.
Portrait of Claire Waelbroeck, paleoclimatologist
Claire Waelbroeck (CNRS) studies marine sediments collected on an oceanographic vessel, which enable to know the natural variations in climate over hundreds of thousands of years. For her, science is not an ivory tower. It is, instead, a better way to understand the world.
Portrait of Daniel Bonn, physicist
Daniel Bonn (CNRS) is pleased to have preserved the power of curiosity and wonder of his early years. Enthusiastic, he does not lose sight of the value, direct or indirect, in the near future or longer term, could have all of his research.
Power of the cell (The)
This documentary shows scientists from France, Germany, Sweden and Moldova, as they carry out work in their various fields of stem cells research. They include a gynaecologist from Bochum in Germany who proves in tests on rats that stem cells from the umbilical cord blood are capable of repairing...
Power of the Planet : Rare Earth
Who is the most vulnerable: Earth or Mankind? In this spectacular new five part series, geologist Dr Iain Stewart explores the great forces that have come together to shape our world. It's taken four and a half billions years to turn the Earth from a barren rock to the world we know today – a...
Principle of relativity according to Bernadette (The)
Bernadette talks about her perception of time, totally changed by relativity: when she finds her father cosmonaut, she could be his mother! The principle of relativity explained in animation.
Public enemy N°1 : Carbon
Global warming has now become a frightening reality. The scientific community is rallying to try and avoid its most dramatic consequences. CO2 is Public Enemy N°1, should global warming continue at the prevailing rate, carbon dioxide could make our planet more and more inhospitable… Will...
Quand homo sapiens faisait son cinéma
Quand Homo sapiens faisait son cinema takes the spectator on the first tracks of the cinematograph through 20.000 years of palaeolithic art. Foolish proposal? Not at all! A new reading of the rock art paintings and engravings reveals numerous cases of decomposition of the movement of animals...
Quand la science traque les criminels
Hightech in criminal investigation : in the crime series CSI no sequel is possible without it. But hightech also enters the reality of criminal investigation; the perfect crime could become almost impossible. The so-called Virtobot, a robot that can do MRI and other scans of a human body is used...
Quants - The alchemists of Wall Street
What are the risks of treating the economy and its markets as a complex machine? Will we be able to keep control of this model-based financial system, or have we created a monster? Quants are the smart math wizards and computer programmers in the engine room of our global financial system who...
Quantum Tamers : revealing our weird & wired future (The)
From deep inside the sewers of Vienna to cutting-edge quantum computing labs to voyages into the minds of the world’s brightest thinkers, including the renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, The Quantum Tamers: Revealing our Weird & Wired Future explores the coming quantum technological...
Radioactive waste, the nuclear nightmare
Waste is the nuclear industry's Achilles heel – and its worst nightmare. Populations are afraid of it and scientists still have not found a satisfactory way of dealing with it. Meanwhile, the heads of the industry try to reassure us and politicians avoid the issue. What exactly do we know about...
Raising Resistance
The documentary is about the fight of the campesinos, the small farmers of Paraguay, against the more and more aggressively expanding production of genetic soy in the country. On the basis of this conflict it describes the global impact that the use of most modern genetic engineering in the 21st...
Rats, the islands' pirates
At the heart of an ambitious research programme on different islands of the globe, researchers are trying to understand the secrets of the incredible expansion of the black rat Rattus rattus. They study the threats posed by this small rodent on 80% of the islands of the world. Indeed, this animal...
Redemption Impossible
In a hermetically sealed off park in Austria our civilization’s moral challenges collide: guilt, responsibility, redemption. Fourty chimpanzees survived HIV experiments „serving mankind“. Traumatized, highly aggressive and mentally isolated. Today four caretakers manage a unique...
Regenesis
This series of detective fiction stages the scientists NorBAC, fictional investigative biotechnology institute based in Toronto and the territories involved Canadian, American and mexiacain. These experts track down all kinds of viruses, genetic engineering and all forms of bio-terrorism.
Resurrection Science
Imagine a living, breathing dinosaur, mammoth, or Neanderthal. This is the story of science's latest frontier. 'Resurrection Science' is a global scientific investigation into DNA sequencing and bio-molecular cloning, to understand how scientists around the world are competing to be the first to...