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IQ: a History of deceit
IQ. Two letters. One of the most commonly shared fantasies in our modern world. French, American, British, Japanese people – every one cares about it. What does IQ really measure? Who invented it? Why and how was it diverted from its original purpose? Today, very few people are able to answer...
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.
Jean-Baptiste Charcot: an epic science
Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936) is undisputedly the forefather of the french polar research and started modern oceanography. Commander for some, he was an experienced sailor and navigated through some of the most dangerous seas. Doctor or explorer for others, he was above all organiser and...
Journey into the heart of life
Journey into the heart of life, a scientific tale with the heroes of Jules Verne and the images of Inserm... Film screened in relief
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...
Journey to the edge of the universe
First accurate non-stop voyage from Earth to the edge of the Universe using a single, unbroken shot through the use of spectacular CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) technology. Building on images taken from the Hubble telescope, Journey to the Edge of the Universe explores the science and history...
Journey to the safest place on earth
This film will be screened with French subtitles. The lethal, highly radioactive nuclear waste from decades of nuclear power use is to be disposed of in final repositories for centuries to come. Safe places are being searched for throughout the world. Edgar Hagen examines the limitations and...
Juan de Nova, the coral island
Save the coral reef of Juan de Nova, virgin island in the Indian Ocean and better protect the coral reefs.
Juste après la ville...
The Sources site is a protected area located near Bordeaux. For three years, the site has been recovering its natural appearance thanks to a new "minimal" management plan. Late mowings, natural development, ranching among other process help supporting biodiversity. Naturalist studies are launched...
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'Or rouge
Also in Student Competition June 1944, Allied forces land in Normandy. Overlord is also the biggest blood transfusion operation ever organized. For the first time, thanks to an extraordinary logistical chain, blood donated by thousands of volunteers in New York and London is transfused to wounded...
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....
L2i - the two infinities
Since that man thinks, he tried to understand and dominate the elements, to organize chaos, to channel energy. For 70 years, the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), covering all fields of science of the infinitely large to the infinitely small, accompanies him in his conquest of...
Ladybird case (The)
The Ladybird seduced man by its beauty and greed against aphids that eat his vegetable garden. It is the icon of biological control not to mention the sympathy engendered by her curves and bright colors. This documentary tales this history the other way around, with humor: considering the...
Lagrange
Historians retrace the career of Lagrange, from his work as an academician protected by the powers that be to teaching new Citizens during the French Revolution. What impact did science have on the politics of the time?
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...
Last Ocean (The)
The Last Ocean lifts the lid on commercial fishing in the most pristine marine ecosystem on Earth, the Ross Sea, Antarctica, and follows the fight to protect this last untouched ocean from humanity’s insatiable appetite for fish.
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...
Le continent de plastique (le)
In 1997, the navigator Charles Moore brought the world’s attention to a huge quantity of plastic debris in the heart of the North Pacific that covers an area of over 3.5 million kilometres. Six times the size of France, which he dubbed the plastic continent.
Legends of the Deep : the giant squid
The giant squids are the largest squid in the world, yet they have never been seen alive in the deep sea. Our film crew, along with some scientific experts, launched an expedition 1,000 meters beneath the sea. After 100 dives totaling 400 hours, we finally succeeded in capturing footage of a giant...
Les abeilles désorientées
To assess the real impact of pesticides on bees, a team of researchers observes them in the field and follows them individually.
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...
Licence to Krill
French version of the film Antarctic Krill are the most successful animal species on Earth, and food for whales, penguins and seals. But krill numbers have dropped dramatically. We follow scientists as they venture beneath the frozen ice pack in search of the cause of krill’s decline,...
Life force - Madagascar
Madagascar is an island like no other. Lying 400 kilometres off the coast of Africa, it’s often referred to as the “seventh continent”. Every corner of Madagascar is inhabited by lemurs – a unique primate found nowhere else on the planet. Foraging in the dark of night, the gremlin-like...
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...
Light Bulb Conspiracy (The)
Does the ever-lasting light bulb really exist? How can a computer chip ‘kill’ a product? Why are millions of computers shipped round the world to be dumped rather than repaired? How did two artists from New York start a popular revolt on the internet which resulted in the life span of millions...
Lightning Reloaded!
Spiral clouds of steel blue and ink black, miles-long bolts of lightning, which for a moment appear to cast a spider's web across the sky. Lightning is beautiful, frightening and much more than heavy weather: recent research data indicate that heavy storms and lightning in Africa are generating the...
Lights Out!
Our planet is lit up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We're addicted to light and we just can’t get enough of it. But like anything else that's addictive, could too much be a bad thing? Lights Out! ventures into the darker side of light to search for answers.
Linguists (The)
David and Greg are "The Linguists": scientists racing to document languages on the verge of extinction. In Siberia, India, and Bolivia, the linguists’ resolve is tested by the very forces stifling languages: institutionalized racism and violent economic unrest. David and Greg must overcome...
Lithium Revolution (The)
A high-stakes power play with global repercussions. In a time of global resource shortage and increasing energy prices, it is lithium that is on the way to becoming „the“ natural resource of the 21st century. Is lithium an answer to the imminent energy crisis and key to the future?
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...
Living with robots
Robots are everywhere. They build our cars, entertain our kids and clean our floors. And as they continue to creep into our lives with ever-greater capabilities and intelligence, they will fundamentally rewrite our relationship with machines. “Living with Robots” takes us to the world’s...
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...
Love and Engineering
This film will be screened with French subtitles. Digital computers geeks looking for analogue, real love... Atanas, a bulgarian computer engineer living in Finland claims to have hacked love, but can he help lonely (and shy...) engineers find real love and real happiness? Atanas is trying to...
Love Hate and Everything In Between
Man’s capacity for kindness and compassion is overshadowed only by his ability to be as cruel and destructive. Can empathy resolve issues of aggression and subjugation, where wars, politics and economic sanctions have failed? "Love Hate and Everything in Between" looks into the world of...
Lucie tells the history of science: the media
Lucie the firefly, cute animation character, leads children to meet the great inventors and discoverers who have advanced science decisively. From smoke signals of Indian-Americans to email, man has always tried to share information with the others.
Lucie tells the history of science: water and wind
Lucie the firefly, likeable character animation, leads children to meet the great inventors and discoverers who have advanced science decisively. How did man tame these elements over the centuries and why these two energies it became necessary.
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...
Magic of motion (The)
Scientists are now seeking to observe the movement of animals in the water, on land or in the air, to implement mechanisms to their machines, thereby maximizing the energy.